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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
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
33/2023 Pues eso, el último verano en Roma de un joven que acaba de cumplir treinta años. Primero lo positivo, creo que está realmente bien escrito, todo fluye y hace que parezca sencillo.
PERO. Este libro me reafirma en querer leer más autoras, ya he leído veinte veces historias demasiado parecidas, el joven en crisis porque de repente hace adulto, que se enamora de una chica bastante intensa que, por supuesto, no le conviene Y claro que la crítica la pone por las nubes, es una buena novela y el canon de la crítica literaria no hace tanto que estaba dominado por hombres. Pero yo no quiero más crisis de señores porque de repente se dan cuenta de que son adultos, o que están en crisis de mediana edad y se enamoran de una jovencita...ya leí muchos y ahora la oferta a mi alcance es mucho más variada que esto.
PERO. Este libro me reafirma en querer leer más autoras, ya he leído veinte veces historias demasiado parecidas, el joven en crisis porque de repente hace adulto, que se enamora de una chica bastante intensa que, por supuesto, no le conviene Y claro que la crítica la pone por las nubes, es una buena novela y el canon de la crítica literaria no hace tanto que estaba dominado por hombres. Pero yo no quiero más crisis de señores porque de repente se dan cuenta de que son adultos, o que están en crisis de mediana edad y se enamoran de una jovencita...ya leí muchos y ahora la oferta a mi alcance es mucho más variada que esto.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
It’s about Rome and how to love and nourish the city and what it will demand (but also give). It’s about how the things and people we leave make us who we are. It’s about how Leo, the narrator, slowly ruins his life in a little corner of a city and about impotent men struggling with middle age, trying to find their place in the world whether through their jobs or through their relationships. It’s about struggles with staying sober and finding ways to make meaning out of chaos.
Infused with light angst (but not dread) and light beauty, there’s a momentum to the writing, of one slight misstep after another towards something unknown and unknowable, similar to how Leo and Arianna both injured in different ways, not knowing what they want from the world, hurtle themselves around one another.
Largely pedestrian in scope (and at points mundane), the story rolls along until Leo’s friend (and drunk) Graziano commits suicide, forcing Leo to handle his affairs (the scene with him lying down next to his corpse in the morgue is so gentle). This death plants a seed (“I was at the end of my tether…” is a refrain hinting at its inevitable end) and subsequently opens Leo to being used, again, by Arianna, a dynamic that both seem to accept. After which Leo begins drinking heavily, ends up fighting a cop and goes to jail. Upon release he is sentimental and goes home to Milan to visit his family but can’t face them.
The experience of reading Last Summer in the City is like feeling a cool breeze at the end of summer. It’s a gentle sign of the changing of things, the continuation of life, uncaring of what has come before. It’s the soft kind of heartbreak of knowing that life and love have passed you by.
Infused with light angst (but not dread) and light beauty, there’s a momentum to the writing, of one slight misstep after another towards something unknown and unknowable, similar to how Leo and Arianna both injured in different ways, not knowing what they want from the world, hurtle themselves around one another.
Largely pedestrian in scope (and at points mundane), the story rolls along until Leo’s friend (and drunk) Graziano commits suicide, forcing Leo to handle his affairs (the scene with him lying down next to his corpse in the morgue is so gentle). This death plants a seed (“I was at the end of my tether…” is a refrain hinting at its inevitable end) and subsequently opens Leo to being used, again, by Arianna, a dynamic that both seem to accept. After which Leo begins drinking heavily, ends up fighting a cop and goes to jail. Upon release he is sentimental and goes home to Milan to visit his family but can’t face them.
The experience of reading Last Summer in the City is like feeling a cool breeze at the end of summer. It’s a gentle sign of the changing of things, the continuation of life, uncaring of what has come before. It’s the soft kind of heartbreak of knowing that life and love have passed you by.
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character