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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
What an absolutely beautiful, strange book. I’ve never read anything quite like it. The prose is complicated, lovely, and rich in meaning. It’s specificity somehow simultaneously reveals the universality of the struggle to love and to live. I imagine I could read this book every day and find something new in each sentence.
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Madre de mi vida, hacía años que no me gustaba tan poco un libro. Me recuerda fuertemente a ciertos pedantes intensos que se reunían en la Universidad a discutir sobre si la completitud se conseguía buscando la exaltación, sea lo que fuere que aquello significara dentro de sus pretenciosas cabezas. Toda la manera de pensar, de afrontar un problema, los patrones de razonamiento son opuestos a lo que admiro y a lo que me atrae. Lóri me cae gorda, Ulysses me cae aún más gordo, estoy segura de que hay una profundísima metáfora en algún sitio en que Ulysses sea aquí el que espera y no el esperado, y en que la sirena se cause a sí misma demora en el viaje, pero me aburre tantísimo que, francamente, queridos, me importa un bledo.
O igual es que no es mi libro, me encantaría escuchar a alguien que lo haya disfrutado. He intentado leer críticas que lo alaban, pero, sinceramente, es como si leyera chino.
O igual es que no es mi libro, me encantaría escuchar a alguien que lo haya disfrutado. He intentado leer críticas que lo alaban, pero, sinceramente, es como si leyera chino.
realistic
(some men love to lecture you about the essential ineffability of the universe before they sleep with you)
(some men love to lecture you about the essential ineffability of the universe before they sleep with you)
Sometimes I felt like I was reading a literary masterpiece, other times I felt bored and wondered why Clarice Lispector wrote a book on the endless self-analysis and Godly tribulations of a detached character.
I am not sure that I really appreciated the idea that Lóris is in need of guidance and basically life lessons from a man… BUT, this is my 21st Century self talking.
The prose is still incredible and the journey pleasant, I just think that I need to re-read the book without bias or expectations to truly enjoy it.
I am not sure that I really appreciated the idea that Lóris is in need of guidance and basically life lessons from a man… BUT, this is my 21st Century self talking.
The prose is still incredible and the journey pleasant, I just think that I need to re-read the book without bias or expectations to truly enjoy it.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Introspective, a little wacky, melancholic... but ultimately the main character remains a cipher.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Clarice Lispector should be a required coming-of-age for people who haven't come of age in their 20s