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Crónica do Pássaro de Corda by Maria João Lourenço, Haruki Murakami
94 reviews
Graphic: Torture, Violence
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Torture, Violence, War
Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Abortion
Minor: Suicide, Vomit
took me like 10 days to process it and finally leave a review. i’m not even really a review person, but i felt like i had to take my time with this one.
the novel’s split into 3 parts, and for the first two, i wasn’t reading for the plot. not at all.
i was reading for the feeling it gave me — this hazy, tranquil state. not walking between the lines with ur eyes, just floating through the fog, trying to catch whatever words drifted close enough.
that mood was constantly interrupted by sexual scenes. nothing irks me more than descriptions of intercourse through that pervy male gaze. it was too much. i almost quit the book because of it, ngl.
but then part 3 hit me. somewhere around chapter 45, i had a real eureka moment. suddenly it all clicked — the characters, their stories, the meaning woven into the layers. it struck me hard.
and just as quickly, i realized why i stuck around: maybe because i was feeling it too.
gut-wrenching, terrifying grief. the freezing-over that happens after. all of it, represented in these details.
the well is where u go when u'r thinking about your trauma. the isolation, the suffocating feeling, the sense of almost dying. u don’t even know why you dive so deep — but u do. every time. voluntarily. funny, isn’t it?
the cat is fleeting happiness. comes and goes whenever it wants. never stays.
my favorite symbol is
people notice. they point it out. they get weird about it. they don’t know what to say. it’s tragic — u were normal just yesterday. maybe it’s the lack of words that makes them pull away. and yeah, i get it. not everyone wants to look directly at someone in that kind of strange, altered state.
and when i started seeing grief through the book’s symbolism, the war storyline made sudden sense.
what better metaphor is there for loss, for the unbearable weight of grief? even if you survive, war kills off your spiritual self.
toru didn’t live through war, but he saw himself in the veteran. that’s the point — they were connected by the same kind of suffering.
i kept returning to this review section, bumping my rating up. 3.25, then 3.5. 3.75. i’m giving it a 4.25 now.
a lot of thoughts.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Grief, War
Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual violence, Blood, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexism, Vomit
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, War
Murakami (and this is not a negative trait!) is very good at capturing the feeling of a dream. This book is surrealist, illogical, and somewhat nonsensical to some and I can see how one might lose patience with this writing style, but I largely found it fascinating and greatly enjoyable.
Graphic: Torture, Violence, War
Minor: Sexual assault
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Animal death
Graphic: Torture
Moderate: Sexual content
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, Colonisation
Minor: Suicide, Abortion
Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, War
Graphic: Gore, Torture, Murder
Moderate: Rape, Suicide