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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5/5
How I interpreted the story was of a premature young girl who’s unstable household causes her to seek comfort into an older man. Tragedy and desire aging her.
This book was disturbing and gross. Even the “sweet” words he told her and pro-founding his love almost immediately after meeting disgusted me.
“You didn’t have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn’t exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been. It was instant knowledge of sexual relationship or it was nothing. That too I knew before I experienced it.”
In the book, she says she never has and never will love him. She says their relationship, for her, is about desire. As the book continues, I was confused with how she didn’t love him. She becomes codependent, they become silently vulnerable with one another, and even agree to their dynamic as her being his “child” (disgusting). But after thinking about the story towards the end I realized that what the man attracted to her was desire. She desired to be taken care of. Coming from her abusive home to a rich man being obsessed with you and catering to your every needs created her codependency.
Also, I found it interesting how much she looks up to her mother even though she was cruel and unfair to her at times. I always found the writing style to be confusing but interesting. I hated it at first but grew to like the unpredictable pov and vague descriptions of characters because it really made you have to learn about the characters patterns to decipher if the small story is about them.
I don’t know if I would really recommend this because of how disturbing it is… it reminded me of Lolita in the sense of the relationship dynamic but is more heartbreaking that it was truth and not fiction.
How I interpreted the story was of a premature young girl who’s unstable household causes her to seek comfort into an older man. Tragedy and desire aging her.
This book was disturbing and gross. Even the “sweet” words he told her and pro-founding his love almost immediately after meeting disgusted me.
“You didn’t have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn’t exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been. It was instant knowledge of sexual relationship or it was nothing. That too I knew before I experienced it.”
In the book, she says she never has and never will love him. She says their relationship, for her, is about desire. As the book continues, I was confused with how she didn’t love him. She becomes codependent, they become silently vulnerable with one another, and even agree to their dynamic as her being his “child” (disgusting). But after thinking about the story towards the end I realized that what the man attracted to her was desire. She desired to be taken care of. Coming from her abusive home to a rich man being obsessed with you and catering to your every needs created her codependency.
Also, I found it interesting how much she looks up to her mother even though she was cruel and unfair to her at times. I always found the writing style to be confusing but interesting. I hated it at first but grew to like the unpredictable pov and vague descriptions of characters because it really made you have to learn about the characters patterns to decipher if the small story is about them.
I don’t know if I would really recommend this because of how disturbing it is… it reminded me of Lolita in the sense of the relationship dynamic but is more heartbreaking that it was truth and not fiction.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Amazziiiiiiing
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
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
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Her writing style is not something I enjoyed (I'm not an expert, so I won't judge as if I was, just not my cup of tea). The author repeats a character's full name twelve times in a paragraph. Twelve.
I don't know how this is called a romance story — drawing attention to their relationship as the plot focus — when the focus is mostly on the family issues.
All characters are unlikable and most border on outright disgusting.
It's rare for me to actually want to drop a story. Pause? Yes, sometimes it drains me. But I was on the verge of dropping this one — just didn't do so over how short it is.
I don't know how this is called a romance story — drawing attention to their relationship as the plot focus — when the focus is mostly on the family issues.
All characters are unlikable and most border on outright disgusting.
It's rare for me to actually want to drop a story. Pause? Yes, sometimes it drains me. But I was on the verge of dropping this one — just didn't do so over how short it is.
La scrittura di Marguerite Duras, così affine al flusso dei miei pensieri, e al modo in cui essi si intrecciano l'uno con l'altro senza sovrastarsi, mi ha piacevolmente rubato ogni minuto libero che ho avuto, o che mi sono ritagliata, nelle ultime ventiquattro ore.
Personale e identitaria, ogni pagina é una scoperta, una messa in discussione della propria miseria e del proprio privilegio allo stesso tempo.
La consapevolezza e lucidità con cui Duras alterna il punto di vista della protagonista in tutte le sue fasi della vita e quello autoriale che osserva a posteriori, sono straordinari.
Il racconto della vita privata e dei rapporti famigliari si proietta su di una realtà dove vige la stessa legge che la madre ed il fratello maggiore hanno, volente o nolente, messo in atto per tutta la giovinezza della protagonista: prevalgono la forza e l'indifferenza, la violenza e la superiorità, il controllo, l'orgoglio e l'onore.
La complessità delle sue relazioni, della sua infanzia e di un malessere inesorabile, quasi destinato, rende il vivere della bambina, poi donna, faticoso e logorante.
Sempre più trascinata dagli eventi che la circondano e che sembrano accadere secondo una fatalità corrotta e crudele, non dice nulla, se non attraverso un discorso indiretto distante e filtrato.
L'amante é lei, é il miliardario cinese, é l'autrice, é la signora del balcone del palazzo, l'uomo che si é ucciso nella piazza, é un concetto astratto che si infiltra in ogni detto e non detto di questo testo.
La decadenza risuona in tutte le parole scelte, in tutti i personaggi anonimi, arresi, paralizzati di fronte ad un futuro inevitabile, in tutti gli scenari delineati da descrizioni paratattiche, vuote di ogni decorazione formale, ma contemporaneamente sognanti e poetiche, come l'immagine della musica di Chopin sul traghetto verso Parigi o quelle del cappello da uomo, del rossetto scuro e delle scarpe in lamee d'oro.
Questo libro mi ha accompagnato per poco tempo, eppure mi ha presa con totalità e posto con cinismo di fronte ai fatti più semplici o tragici della vita, i tanti tasselli che compongono l'esperienza di un'autrice audace e unica nel suo genere.
Personale e identitaria, ogni pagina é una scoperta, una messa in discussione della propria miseria e del proprio privilegio allo stesso tempo.
La consapevolezza e lucidità con cui Duras alterna il punto di vista della protagonista in tutte le sue fasi della vita e quello autoriale che osserva a posteriori, sono straordinari.
Il racconto della vita privata e dei rapporti famigliari si proietta su di una realtà dove vige la stessa legge che la madre ed il fratello maggiore hanno, volente o nolente, messo in atto per tutta la giovinezza della protagonista: prevalgono la forza e l'indifferenza, la violenza e la superiorità, il controllo, l'orgoglio e l'onore.
La complessità delle sue relazioni, della sua infanzia e di un malessere inesorabile, quasi destinato, rende il vivere della bambina, poi donna, faticoso e logorante.
Sempre più trascinata dagli eventi che la circondano e che sembrano accadere secondo una fatalità corrotta e crudele, non dice nulla, se non attraverso un discorso indiretto distante e filtrato.
L'amante é lei, é il miliardario cinese, é l'autrice, é la signora del balcone del palazzo, l'uomo che si é ucciso nella piazza, é un concetto astratto che si infiltra in ogni detto e non detto di questo testo.
La decadenza risuona in tutte le parole scelte, in tutti i personaggi anonimi, arresi, paralizzati di fronte ad un futuro inevitabile, in tutti gli scenari delineati da descrizioni paratattiche, vuote di ogni decorazione formale, ma contemporaneamente sognanti e poetiche, come l'immagine della musica di Chopin sul traghetto verso Parigi o quelle del cappello da uomo, del rossetto scuro e delle scarpe in lamee d'oro.
Questo libro mi ha accompagnato per poco tempo, eppure mi ha presa con totalità e posto con cinismo di fronte ai fatti più semplici o tragici della vita, i tanti tasselli che compongono l'esperienza di un'autrice audace e unica nel suo genere.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes