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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
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:
Complicated
To be read in great gulps, and with an equally great grain of sand.
I read Miller like a tourist might visit a well known slum. I'm there for the grit and the hustle, the flavour, the catharsis. I want to see everything I can see without getting swept away. I want to return to my safe world after enjoying the flush of something a little bit dangerous.
Thematically, there is very little here that excites me. Indeed he is drawing on Lawrence and Freud in ways that feel a bit tired in 2014. I opened this book with no expectation of finding something relatable or enlightening, but none of that matters when the prose hits you like a punch in the ovaries. It's a bold, unapologetic, unrestrained symphony of hyperbole. It's a festive mess of human detail. It's equal parts experiment and document. It's provocation and celebration and a fair amount of masturbation from a master raconteur.
I read Miller like a tourist might visit a well known slum. I'm there for the grit and the hustle, the flavour, the catharsis. I want to see everything I can see without getting swept away. I want to return to my safe world after enjoying the flush of something a little bit dangerous.
Thematically, there is very little here that excites me. Indeed he is drawing on Lawrence and Freud in ways that feel a bit tired in 2014. I opened this book with no expectation of finding something relatable or enlightening, but none of that matters when the prose hits you like a punch in the ovaries. It's a bold, unapologetic, unrestrained symphony of hyperbole. It's a festive mess of human detail. It's equal parts experiment and document. It's provocation and celebration and a fair amount of masturbation from a master raconteur.
Personally, I quite enjoyed the semi-autobiography. I do wonder how much of the filth is evocative of truth and how much of it an invocation of fantasy. I cull and quote Miller himself, “Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk"; More obscenity and more murk, please.
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challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
La difficoltà di questo romanzo sta nel non sottovalutarlo, nel riuscire a passare incolumi - specie se donne, secondo me - le pagine in cui Miller ha come obiettivo massimo l'infilare l'uccello in un buco, e cosa o di chi sia quel buco non gli interessa. Tropico del Cancro conteneva le stesse descrizioni abbrutite da una specie di mal di vivere, ma poiché si trattava più un romanzo che un'autobiografia, alla fine ci si poteva passare sopra. La difficoltà, dicevo, è nel non considerare Tropico del Capricorno solo una squallida autobiografia di una persona non in pace con sé stessa, uno scrittore diventato tale solo per caso, oltre che una copia in chiave autobiografica del predecessore. La bellezza di questo romanzo, di questa vita, si apprezza concludendolo, masticandolo piano, perché il surrealismo (quasi non voluto) che pervade ogni pagina è insieme squisito e lercio, incide nella memoria parole e immagini inclassificabili, oniriche, distinte e indistinguibili da tutta la porcheria che le racchiude.
La vita di Miller è difficile, forse non apprezzabile a prescindere, però è pur vero che un libro piace a seconda della sensibilità di chi lo legge, e io l'ho trovato perfetto nel suo squallore, nella sua difficoltà.
La vita di Miller è difficile, forse non apprezzabile a prescindere, però è pur vero che un libro piace a seconda della sensibilità di chi lo legge, e io l'ho trovato perfetto nel suo squallore, nella sua difficoltà.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
http://nhw.livejournal.com/699364.html[return][return]Jeepers, this must have seemed awfully intelligent and hip in 1938; but the anti-semitism, misogyny, and total lack of any actual plot have not aged this book well. I did struggle through to the end, just about.
A pesar de buenos momentos de clarividencia la lectura se acaba haciendo pesada. Nunca dejo un libro sin terminar pero estaba cogiendo odio a la lectura y ese me parece el mayor de los pecados.
Puede que lo retome, puede que no.
Puede que lo retome, puede que no.