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dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
خوب.
خوندنش آسون نبود. رمان در ترسیم روابط قدرت کاملاً درست عمل کرده. خردستیزی و هموفوییای فاشیستی رو دقیق توصیف کرده.
خوندنش آسون نبود. رمان در ترسیم روابط قدرت کاملاً درست عمل کرده. خردستیزی و هموفوییای فاشیستی رو دقیق توصیف کرده.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This story of teenagers who allow themselves to persecute one of their own because they consider him inferior saw by others as a premonition of Nazism. But this book also tells us about the victim's behavior, ideas, and calculations that lead the torturers and victims to humiliate and allow themselves to have done, respectively. The inner life and how it is shaken or stimulated by adolescence were well described independently of the history of persecution or perhaps in connection with it. The Confessions (plural) of the pupil Törless do not speak to us only of persecution of school harassment. They are also present throughout the novel, the concern linked to our place in the world at the dawn of the 20th century, the theme of adolescence, pederasty and the search for one's sexuality, belief and doubt in the school institution, the quest for meaning, etc. It was a vibrant, well-written novel with images whose central theme is brand and education.
Difficult and dense, despite its small page count, but the sort of book that adds up to more when completed than when it's still unfolding. I may revisit this one later, but now I'm all the more interested in Musil's "Man Without Qualities".
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
For the first 120 pages I was completely mindblown - talking about homoerotic fantasies, S/M, boys having feelings etc. in 1900? While also foreseeing so many aspects of the Nazi rule? Groundbreaking! Which it truly is. However, at times it is a bit exhaustingly "philosophical" and phsychologizing. I still think that teenagers (in German speaking countries at least) should read this book in school. Much more intelligent than so many others in the curriculum.
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes