334 reviews for:

Nadja

André Breton

3.37 AVERAGE

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad 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: Yes

“Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us....But it doesn’t matter: you’ll take another name: and the name you choose, I ought to tell you, is extremely important. It must have something of fire about it, for it is always fire that recurs in anything to do with you. The hand, too, but that is less essential than the fire. What I see is a flame starting from the wrist, like this (with the gesture of palming a card), and making the hand burn up immediately, so that it disappears in the twinkling of an eye.”

emotional reflective medium-paced
dark emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
fast-paced
lighthearted mysterious 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: No

Somewhere between a 3/4 stars, definitely one I feel like I’d need to read several more times and read analysis of to understand more, but an interesting one and cool to learn the namesake behind a drone metal band I like (aptly named Nadja)

I don't know but in our contemporary context this reads to me like an extended defense of objectifying women, obsessively.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes