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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Insightful and strangely lovely but ultimately obscure and underwhelming.
In Breton's narration, title character Nadja becomes a metaphor and a manifestation of the surrealist perspective. Quirky, temperamental, artistic, deeply intellectual, and a little mad, Nadja inspires Breton through chance encounters, past associations, futuristic visions, and artful hallucinations. Nadja reads as a ghostly romance that teeters precariously between reality & unreality and genius & madness.
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
The book's run-on narrative style is interesting and offers an intriguing insight... into the narrator, presumably just Breton but it doesn't matter much. We don't learn much about Nadja because once the narrator sees more than a glimpse the spell is broken so we just learn about the man who cannot bear her reality.
I need to learn that books that say “is this a novel?” And “experimental….surrealist” are not for me. I’m taken back to my uni days. Didn’t rate this!
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
“Ela é como um comboio incessantemente às sacadas na estação de Lyon e que sei não ir partir nunca, nunca ter partido. A beleza, com efeito, é feita de sacadas, das quais muitas não têm importância, mas que sabemos destinadas a trazer uma que de facto a tem. Uma Sacada que tem toda a importância que eu não saberia atribuir-me.”
Recently I found out of existence of surrealist literature and I got really curious of it, so I decided to check out the most famous author, André Breton.
I was expecting surrealistic story to be super chaotic and non-understandable,full of unrealistic characters and unbelievable situations. But the fact that Nadja turned out to be a pretty normal and short story surprised me and dissapointed me a bit.
For me, this story is a mixture of author's life, memories and feelings described in a concrete yet abstract manner. also the book exposed to me few authors and phenomens i havent heard of before and reminded me of the one's I already had known.
overall I'm glad I've checked out the most famous surrealist author but am dissapointed of the story not living up to my expectations.
I was expecting surrealistic story to be super chaotic and non-understandable,full of unrealistic characters and unbelievable situations. But the fact that Nadja turned out to be a pretty normal and short story surprised me and dissapointed me a bit.
For me, this story is a mixture of author's life, memories and feelings described in a concrete yet abstract manner. also the book exposed to me few authors and phenomens i havent heard of before and reminded me of the one's I already had known.
overall I'm glad I've checked out the most famous surrealist author but am dissapointed of the story not living up to my expectations.