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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I am not ashamed to claim that I couldn’t understand a crap out of it. :)
reflective
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:
Complicated
The first third of the book, I was not impressed at all. It felt like what people think of when they think of a Modernist text—dense, rambling, etc. Once Nadja was introduced, however, I was so intrigued by her character that I wanted to keep reading. Being honest, though, I still am not thoroughly impressed with this narrative. If Nadja had been the narrator and protagonist, I think this book would be so much more interesting and engaging. This book did make me realize, though, that I LOVE surrealism, even if I rarely understand what’s happening.
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
rip andré breton you would have loved invisible string by taylor swift!
Yes, yes, yes, yes. This book made me feel like I was simultaneously having a causal conversation and a panic attack and a lucid dream all at once. Read this for a literature course and it sort of made all the other novels for the semester ring hollow and fall flat.
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Nadja is the first manic pixie dream girl, throughout the page of the book you learn very tangential things about her, but all secondhand, this is because the book is a seemingly autobiographical account from what it seems, but to see Andre desire this empty shell it leaves much to be desired. the writing is great but altogether its very French, long drawn out romantic paragraphs about the streets and parties they go too. it feels like a laundry list of names that Breton knew during the time of the writing of the book so that his involvement in dada would be written somewhere, the book is short and that is an upside, more than the 160 pages in this volume (and tbqh about 60 of those), it would be too much. Breton explores a lot of interesting ideas which are hidden by his overly romantic and descriptive writing style.