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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Se basa en la experiencia de Marías como profesor dos años en Oxford. No tiene una trama fuerte, es un recorrido de recuerdos, encuentros y lo más interesante como siempre en Marías, observaciones y reflexiones. La relación sentimental con Clare no me cautivó y algunos personajes como el portero, tampoco. Lo que más me gustó fue la concepción de la vida universitaria como mundo cerrado, endogámico, lleno de rutinas, de jerarquías. También me gusta la idea de contar la experiencia en clave de perturbación retrospectiva, una vez que el narrador ya está de regreso en Madrid.
emotional
lighthearted
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As a person of Spanish extraction currently living in Oxford, collecting books and feeling somewhat out of place, I deeply relate to this book. Charged with dry wit, Marias details an Oxford much like the real one: moments of excitement and horror punctuating long stretches of uncertainty and tedium.
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this was more a character study than anything, grasping at straws for a central plot while focusing on the (relentless) inner thoughts of the narrator. clare haunts this book like a ghost and i found myself looking forward to the scenes she would be present in; in a way the writing style conditioned me to be just like the narrator. although boring at times the writing style kept me engaged. i could see myself better enjoying another book of the authors with a more refined plot.
Oxford-set, melancholy, digressive first-person account of a male lecturer, visiting from Spain, and his two-year affair with an Englishwoman. About four-fifths through I was growing impatient with its complacent privileged worldview, but shortly after, as the affair nears its end, it introduces a recollected event that is surprising and affecting.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes