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witchard's review against another edition
2.0
No tengo claro qué acabo de leer. Diría que su finalidad, más que contar una historia, es ejercitar un estilo literario bastante peculiar. Valoro mucho esta habilidad estilística, pero el hecho de no saber bien qué sucede (o entenderlo pero no empatizar con esas situaciones supuestamente trascendentales), y la sensación de haber leído 1000 páginas en vez de 100, no me permite darle una puntuación más alta.
No está mal como lectura secundaria, quizá para acompañar lecturas más comerciales (si es que echas de menos un estilo lírico y enigmático, y quieres experimentar cómo tu existencia se dispersa en el tiempo con un pensamiento constante: «¡¿Qué coxx estoy leyendo?!»).
No está mal como lectura secundaria, quizá para acompañar lecturas más comerciales (si es que echas de menos un estilo lírico y enigmático, y quieres experimentar cómo tu existencia se dispersa en el tiempo con un pensamiento constante: «¡¿Qué coxx estoy leyendo?!»).
gragrongra's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Beautiful prose and moments, but if there's a story in here I couldn't find it. It reads much more like poetry or vignettes of a life
sunblinding's review against another edition
5.0
While its meaning can as easily elude one's grasp as might the river's swiftly coursing waters, so too does the prose stand firmly before one with all the elegance and determination of an Attic effigy.
(I enjoyed this book but I did not understand it.)
(I enjoyed this book but I did not understand it.)
philadelphiamusicjon's review against another edition
3.0
I have absolutely no idea what this book was about, it was just pretty words that don't seem to have much coherence as a whole at all, maybe I missed something
obsessioncollector's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
4.0
"The children — you, madam, must be acquainted with some — often say that they want to go back to another world, one they’ve known, full of incredible paradigms of perfection. The boy remembered well the beauty he hadn’t been able to hold on to, more than once he’d said that he wanted to go back there. He had a horror of anything hereditary, because whatever comes to us by natural inheritance belongs to the dead."
This was so cryptic... Between this and Destroy, She Said, what an oblique end to the year
This was so cryptic... Between this and Destroy, She Said, what an oblique end to the year
samrher's review against another edition
4.0
incredibly odd but somehow familiar. the little novel reads something like a meditation with some sort of calm death wish. truly impossible to describe, but i loved it.
claumochi's review against another edition
e, come nelle fiabe, siamo tornati su dai sotterranei, carichi di anni, tranquilli, senza stanchezza, quasi senza vita
mayacatherinecreative's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
wowiamsogenius's review against another edition
4.0
"From childhood he'd been a collector, museums were in him; statues were his playthings, a privilege of all who are born lost and start out from where they end."
inesvermeylen's review against another edition
4.0
Ik kan u niet zeggen waar dit boek over gaat maar het is mooi geschreven en de vibe is wel echt uniek