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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
3stelline e mezza, ad essere precisa.
Un divertissement ben riuscito per due terzi di libro (anzi, libricino) che però si svela troppo presto, secondo me. L’ultimo terzo è quasi inutile una volta che si capisce, ovviamente, che il disturbatore ed il disturbato sono la stessa persona.
Comunque una piccola delizia, per un’ora di svago.
Un divertissement ben riuscito per due terzi di libro (anzi, libricino) che però si svela troppo presto, secondo me. L’ultimo terzo è quasi inutile una volta che si capisce, ovviamente, che il disturbatore ed il disturbato sono la stessa persona.
Comunque una piccola delizia, per un’ora di svago.
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
No es mi tipo de libro, creo que con esto no hay para que decir más xd pero igual reconozco que esta bien escrito y que de una forma u otra logra mantenerte enganchado.
dark
emotional
funny
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
Breve, brutal e inteligente. Una novela que en menos de cien páginas consigue absorbernos, horrorizarnos y sorprendernos.
Un hombre en un aeropuerto, un vuelo demorado y un extraño que se sienta a su lado. Lo que empieza como un simple incordio y una charla extraña evoluciona rápidamente en la confesión de un crimen -o dos- que te hielan la sangre no sólo por su inherente horror sino por la absoluta ausencia de cualquier sentimiento próximo a la culpa en el perpetrador.
Una novela sostenida enteramente por diálogos que consigue que no le sobre una pregunta, una evasión, una respuesta. El dominio de la autora tanto del lenguaje como de la corroída y dañina psiquis del victimario es impecable y estremecedora en todo momento. Me encantó.
Mi primera vez con Amélie Nothomb. No puedo esperar a leerla más.
Un hombre en un aeropuerto, un vuelo demorado y un extraño que se sienta a su lado. Lo que empieza como un simple incordio y una charla extraña evoluciona rápidamente en la confesión de un crimen -o dos- que te hielan la sangre no sólo por su inherente horror sino por la absoluta ausencia de cualquier sentimiento próximo a la culpa en el perpetrador.
Una novela sostenida enteramente por diálogos que consigue que no le sobre una pregunta, una evasión, una respuesta. El dominio de la autora tanto del lenguaje como de la corroída y dañina psiquis del victimario es impecable y estremecedora en todo momento. Me encantó.
Mi primera vez con Amélie Nothomb. No puedo esperar a leerla más.
I think this would have been better as a play. More powerful even. It's 90% dialog as it is [1]. I hated it, and I loved it. I won't give anything away, but my brain caught hints of what was to come without really processing them (the hints). I think I was too busy hating the Textor character to really analyze what was going on. Not hating the character as a creation, but hating his "personality". Of course, that's the point. I thought of Lolita -- the solipsistic unreliable narrator (the difference is in the final twist).
In the end, it was delightfully disturbing, the way a car crash might be, as long as we're not part of it, rubber-necking past the wreckage. But watch out, the next car crash might involve you...
What was most interesting to me was not so much the doppelganger aspect of the story so much as the what-we-keep-hidden-from-ourselves aspect of the story. We do this every minute of every day in one degree or another. This book shows one of the possible consequences of this hiding-from-ourselves...
[1] I usually don't like all-dialog novels. I kept thinking, why not just write a play?
In the end, it was delightfully disturbing, the way a car crash might be, as long as we're not part of it, rubber-necking past the wreckage. But watch out, the next car crash might involve you...
What was most interesting to me was not so much the doppelganger aspect of the story so much as the what-we-keep-hidden-from-ourselves aspect of the story. We do this every minute of every day in one degree or another. This book shows one of the possible consequences of this hiding-from-ourselves...
[1] I usually don't like all-dialog novels. I kept thinking, why not just write a play?
mi è sempre piaciuta la nothomb, ma questo libro mi ha deluso. pieno di falle di trama e sembra che arrivata ad un certo punto si sia affrettata a trovare una fine.
In één ruk, omdat het zo aangrijpt en zo goed geschreven is. De ongewone dialoog leest heerlijk, en tegelijk wil je zo weinig mogelijk met het onderwerp te maken hebben. Niet per se de meest originele ontknoping, maar dat hoeft niet als het goed gedaan is.