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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
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At first I was hesitant about combining first person passages with actual diary entries, but I found it to be very effective. I liked the art style and I was glad they didn’t gloss over her politics or bisexuality.
I wanted to read [b:El placer|50804267|El placer|María Hesse|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1562776705l/50804267._SX50_SY75_.jpg|71868146], but they didn’t have it in my library yet, so I picked up this one and I definitely don’t regret it. I didn’t know much about Frida Kahlo, so considering the amount of information, this was perfect. And the illustrations are gorgeous variations of Frida’s own paintings.
I have two nit-picks though and that the author isn’t able to distinguish between right and left. She tells us repeatedly that it is Frida’s right leg that is “ill”, and yet in all the illustrations (with one exception with just her feet) it’s the left leg that is painted as the ill one. Including that painting with just her boots… It’s quite shallow, I know, but I was irritated by that the whole time I read it and it snapped me out of the story.
The other thing is that although we are told that at the last years of her life, her lovers were mostly female, in the 10 portraits of her lovers we only get two women, but that can have a logical explanation…
As a whole, interesting and inspiring book depicting one unusual life. Life of a woman unbelievably full of life confined in a slowly dying body.
"To build a wall around your suffering is to risk that it will eat you up from the inside out”—Frida Kahlo
I have two nit-picks though and that the author isn’t able to distinguish between right and left. She tells us repeatedly that it is Frida’s right leg that is “ill”, and yet in all the illustrations (with one exception with just her feet) it’s the left leg that is painted as the ill one. Including that painting with just her boots… It’s quite shallow, I know, but I was irritated by that the whole time I read it and it snapped me out of the story.
The other thing is that although we are told that at the last years of her life, her lovers were mostly female, in the 10 portraits of her lovers we only get two women, but that can have a logical explanation…
"I hope the exit is joyous and I hope to never come back."
As a whole, interesting and inspiring book depicting one unusual life. Life of a woman unbelievably full of life confined in a slowly dying body.
emotional
informative
fast-paced
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
Descreve bem quem foi Frida Kahlo, mexicana do século XX. As ilustrações feitas por María Hesse dão um toque especial e único para quem deseja percorrer a vida conturbada e, ao mesmo tempo, fascinante.
Recomendo por ser fácil de ler e para todas as idades. Para além disto, a autora apresenta outas fontes indexadas como “Bibliografia e Documentação”, “Filmografia”, entre outros.
Acabo com o aviso de Hesse: “resta-me dar-te um conselho: se queres conhecer o mais autêntico dela, perde-te em cada um dos seus quadros, onde foi deixando pequenas mensagens sobre a pessoa que foi. Nas suas pinturas reside a verdadeira Frida.”
Recomendo por ser fácil de ler e para todas as idades. Para além disto, a autora apresenta outas fontes indexadas como “Bibliografia e Documentação”, “Filmografia”, entre outros.
Acabo com o aviso de Hesse: “resta-me dar-te um conselho: se queres conhecer o mais autêntico dela, perde-te em cada um dos seus quadros, onde foi deixando pequenas mensagens sobre a pessoa que foi. Nas suas pinturas reside a verdadeira Frida.”