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willowopal's review
3.0
Beautiful writing amidst small, small traces of war. Nicely represents connection bridging barriers such as language and strict parents.
Nice quotes:
...with all the drollery of fellow pallbearers distributing white gloves among themselves.
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago. A man can’t go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn’t fit anything.
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Nice quotes:
...with all the drollery of fellow pallbearers distributing white gloves among themselves.
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
Maybe I just worried too much about things. Maybe I consistently hesitated to risk letting the thing we had together deteriorate into a romance. I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago. A man can’t go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn’t fit anything.
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
supreeth's review against another edition
5.0
Even though Salinger was formed by the war, he never exactly writes about war. But this really short story has atleast traces of war in the background. I'm not sure how Salinger brings up characters so real in very few words, it's a shame that he decided to shred his works. Stupid weird old man.
todelisus's review
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
bunnyhs's review
5.0
What Hitler did to Jews was always heartbreaking to me.. But to read about it on a personal level in a story that perfectly balances sarcasm and sorrow and yearning woah...
jovvijo's review
4.0
Have you ever known someone you'd have liked to get to know better, that you had feelings for, that could have, might have, possibly should have been more in your life, but that left it and that you wondered about... what happened to them? Are they happy? Do they miss me...
This story starts with a lot of humor and is about a guy, dare I say boy, gallivanting about Europe who meets a girl and who lets her slip away....
And what he does to find out her fate.
Poignant and sweetly bitter, much like the coffee they shared together.
This story starts with a lot of humor and is about a guy, dare I say boy, gallivanting about Europe who meets a girl and who lets her slip away....
And what he does to find out her fate.
Poignant and sweetly bitter, much like the coffee they shared together.
lost_in_translation's review
5.0
"A man can't go along indefinitely carrying around in his pocket a key that doesn't fit anything." - J.D. Salinger
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