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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Addiction, Infidelity
dark
tense
fast-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
challenging
dark
medium-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
challenging
reflective
slow-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
dark
reflective
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-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
"She no longer belonged to herself. No matter where she sought refuge, people had unashamedly formed an image of her over which she had no control."
"...her past rose up like a wall whose supporting building next door has been torn down. It stared at her with the vulnerability of her entire childhood."
Ditlevsen is such an amazing writer. I will read everything she has written. Definitely a shift from the Copenhagen tril but same vibes and very interesting narrator perception of fact/fiction to explore. Very haunting imagery and introspection, and quite a quick read!
"...her past rose up like a wall whose supporting building next door has been torn down. It stared at her with the vulnerability of her entire childhood."
Ditlevsen is such an amazing writer. I will read everything she has written. Definitely a shift from the Copenhagen tril but same vibes and very interesting narrator perception of fact/fiction to explore. Very haunting imagery and introspection, and quite a quick read!
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I devoured this book!
The Faces is a haunting descent into madness, isolation, and the unraveling of self.
Reality warps, faces shift, and the world turns against its protagonist, Lise, in ways both psychological and disturbingly tangible.
Ditlevsen’s imagery is breathtakingly strange, almost painfully vivid.
Her prose is brutally poetic, rendering emotions into surreal, almost tactile imagery.
Fear isn’t just felt—it take shape & she paints these intense emotions in a phenomenal way.
Her portrayal of psychosis is unflinching, immersing the reader in a mind that cannot trust itself.
The result is deeply unsettling, yet absolutely mesmerizing. It’s intense.
At its core, The Faces is also a reflection on female entrapment.
Lise is a mother, wife, and writer, but none of these roles save her.
Instead, they suffocate.
The people around her-cold, dismissive, exploitative-don’t seek to understand her suffering; they seek to contain it.
Her madness becomes an inconvenience rather than a tragedy, a reflection of how women’s pain is often pathologized instead of heard.
With echoes of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar but sharper in its surrealism, The Faces is a visceral, claustrophobic masterpiece.
It does not offer redemption, only raw, unfiltered truth.
Ditlevsen doesn’t just write about mental collapse—she translates it into language, making you feel every whisper, every distorted reflection, every moment of unraveling.
Unforgettable!
The Faces is a haunting descent into madness, isolation, and the unraveling of self.
Reality warps, faces shift, and the world turns against its protagonist, Lise, in ways both psychological and disturbingly tangible.
Ditlevsen’s imagery is breathtakingly strange, almost painfully vivid.
Her prose is brutally poetic, rendering emotions into surreal, almost tactile imagery.
Fear isn’t just felt—it take shape & she paints these intense emotions in a phenomenal way.
Her portrayal of psychosis is unflinching, immersing the reader in a mind that cannot trust itself.
The result is deeply unsettling, yet absolutely mesmerizing. It’s intense.
At its core, The Faces is also a reflection on female entrapment.
Lise is a mother, wife, and writer, but none of these roles save her.
Instead, they suffocate.
The people around her-cold, dismissive, exploitative-don’t seek to understand her suffering; they seek to contain it.
Her madness becomes an inconvenience rather than a tragedy, a reflection of how women’s pain is often pathologized instead of heard.
With echoes of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar but sharper in its surrealism, The Faces is a visceral, claustrophobic masterpiece.
It does not offer redemption, only raw, unfiltered truth.
Ditlevsen doesn’t just write about mental collapse—she translates it into language, making you feel every whisper, every distorted reflection, every moment of unraveling.
Unforgettable!