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3.47 AVERAGE
3.47 AVERAGE
Zo.
Daarmee hebben we het meest hatelijke literaire personage van de afgelopen jaren ook gehad.
Wat een eikel, die Hans.
Wat een irritante zelfingenomen blaas.
Het is de Mùùr, Hans, niet de Evenaar die door Oost-Berlijn loopt.
Door je reet en door je miezerige bestaan.
Dit gezegd zijnde: ‘Kairos’ zou over de liefde gaan.
Dan toch die van de (zelf)destructieve soort.
De volkomen onevenwichtige relatie tussen Katharina en de meer dan dertig jaar oudere Hans begint met een behoorlijk onwaarschijnlijke ontmoeting, laait even hoog op, maar brandt al vlug richting meedogenloze vernietiging van de arme negentienjarige.
Aan de hand van twee archiefdozen vol ‘platte producten’ kijkt ze vele jaren later - en na de dood van haar predator - terug op de ontluisterende periode van hun verbintenis.
Voor en na de val.
Van de Muur. Van haar zelfbeeld. Van haar eigenwaarde.
En van de hoge verwachtingen die ik had van dit boek.
Daarmee hebben we het meest hatelijke literaire personage van de afgelopen jaren ook gehad.
Wat een eikel, die Hans.
Wat een irritante zelfingenomen blaas.
Het is de Mùùr, Hans, niet de Evenaar die door Oost-Berlijn loopt.
Door je reet en door je miezerige bestaan.
Dit gezegd zijnde: ‘Kairos’ zou over de liefde gaan.
Dan toch die van de (zelf)destructieve soort.
De volkomen onevenwichtige relatie tussen Katharina en de meer dan dertig jaar oudere Hans begint met een behoorlijk onwaarschijnlijke ontmoeting, laait even hoog op, maar brandt al vlug richting meedogenloze vernietiging van de arme negentienjarige.
Aan de hand van twee archiefdozen vol ‘platte producten’ kijkt ze vele jaren later - en na de dood van haar predator - terug op de ontluisterende periode van hun verbintenis.
Voor en na de val.
Van de Muur. Van haar zelfbeeld. Van haar eigenwaarde.
En van de hoge verwachtingen die ik had van dit boek.
first 1/3 story moved much quicker than the rest - needed my brain switched on to read it so took a while to get through. would be better if I knew more about east germany and sociopolitical environment of the 1970/80’s in germany before reading.
kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."[ Kairos, then, means that one must find the best situation, taking timing into consideration, to act.
Wheeewww idk man, sad book, rough book, great book
Wheeewww idk man, sad book, rough book, great book
dark
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-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
This was a ‘good’ book, but I hated it. It was well written and the prose was excellent, but I didn’t enjoy it at all. The emotional abuse was just relentless, and for what?
The author says it’s about how something can start off with such great ideals and end up so badly (just like the communist regime in east germany) - but I didn’t feel that the allegory translated that well.
I really enjoyed the bits about the narratives and inventories we built around relationships, for example ‘He knew he would remember her standing in that doorway’, or ‘this was the first word in their shared vocabulary’, or ‘this was the first time they did this walk together’. I found that way of thinking about a new relationship as you fall into it to be quite ‘true’.
But, I just hated this. I had heard such good things, and it was just relentless
The author says it’s about how something can start off with such great ideals and end up so badly (just like the communist regime in east germany) - but I didn’t feel that the allegory translated that well.
I really enjoyed the bits about the narratives and inventories we built around relationships, for example ‘He knew he would remember her standing in that doorway’, or ‘this was the first word in their shared vocabulary’, or ‘this was the first time they did this walk together’. I found that way of thinking about a new relationship as you fall into it to be quite ‘true’.
But, I just hated this. I had heard such good things, and it was just relentless
dark
mysterious
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
first half was great, second half just sort of died down. there were some metaphors here that i understood but some of them got shadowed bc of our mc's "relationship". i just couldn't care about them. good as an art, bad as a fiction i guess.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
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
dark
tense
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
challenging
dark
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
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes