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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
Due cose mi hanno irritato moltissimo -a sufficienza, pare, da tagliare a metà la cinquina delle stelline: ogni parte biografica l'ho trovata sterile e inutile ai fini del discorso più ampio; questo ritratto liberal-progressista di un'autrice di cui ad un certo punto è svelato l'alcolismo dovrebbe stupirci (?) eppure anche quello rimane un dettaglio annacquato e inconsistente.
La seconda è la ripetitività quasi ossessiva di donna=madre. Non ci si discosta MAI dall'idea che la mostruosità femminile possa riguardare altro che non sia l'abbandono o l'abuso dei figli; ogni donna è soppesata nella sua identità materna togliendo dal calcolo e dalla prospettiva qualsiasi altra indagine.
challenging
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challenging
informative
medium-paced
No headway into the book's main promise: "what do we do with the art made by people who are terrible/have done terrible things" Lots of moments from the author's life and her own examples.
”There is not some correct answer. You are not responsible for finding it. Your feeling of responsibility is a shibboleth, a reinforcement of your tragically limited role as a consumer. There is no authority and there should be no authority. You are off the hook. You are inconsistent. You do not need to have a grand unified theory about what to do about Michael Jackson. You are a hypocrite, over and over. You love Annie Hall but you can barely stand to look at a painting by Picasso. You are not responsible for solving this unreconciled contradiction. In fact, you will solve nothing by means of your consumption; the idea that you can is a dead end… The way you consume art doesn’t make you a bad person, or a good one. You’ll have to find some other way to accomplish that.”
It’s been like 10 months since I finished this book and I still think about it all the time (perhaps because the news forces me to). Absolutely great stuff going on here
It’s been like 10 months since I finished this book and I still think about it all the time (perhaps because the news forces me to). Absolutely great stuff going on here
A very interesting critique with a lot of food for thought.
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Antisemitism
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