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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
Short review: Male wank fantasy about submissive woman couched in pretentious language.
Slightly less short review: This book fell completely flat and achieved nothing near my expectations for it. Breton spends the whole time wildly swinging from convoluted musings with no clear conclusions, to obsessively talking about Nadja worshipping him, or alternatively being annoyed by her behaviour or feeling uncomfortable to realise he isn't actually the centre of her world: 'I was also increasingly alarmed to find that, when even I left her, she was sucked back into the whirlwind of ordinary life continuing around her and eager to force her, among other concessions, to eat, to sleep.'
Some of Breton's musings were actually quite interesting, and the references to places and their history was interesting as well, but the constant inflated self-importance Breton displays just makes the book completely uninteresting. The way he sees Nadja (whether she's meant to be interpreted as real or not is beside the point) is pretty much the epitome of a male wank fantasy about worshipful submissive women, and I'm not interested in staying in a mind like that for very long.
Slightly less short review: This book fell completely flat and achieved nothing near my expectations for it. Breton spends the whole time wildly swinging from convoluted musings with no clear conclusions, to obsessively talking about Nadja worshipping him, or alternatively being annoyed by her behaviour or feeling uncomfortable to realise he isn't actually the centre of her world: 'I was also increasingly alarmed to find that, when even I left her, she was sucked back into the whirlwind of ordinary life continuing around her and eager to force her, among other concessions, to eat, to sleep.'
Some of Breton's musings were actually quite interesting, and the references to places and their history was interesting as well, but the constant inflated self-importance Breton displays just makes the book completely uninteresting. The way he sees Nadja (whether she's meant to be interpreted as real or not is beside the point) is pretty much the epitome of a male wank fantasy about worshipful submissive women, and I'm not interested in staying in a mind like that for very long.
Dnf
The premise of this book intrigued me, but I really don't like the narrator or the writing style.
The premise of this book intrigued me, but I really don't like the narrator or the writing style.
استمتعت في قراءة رواية نادجا لكن لم تعجبني، لا أعرف هل هو بسبب الترجمة أم لأنني توقعت منها أكثر
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