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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
Stream of Consciousness is so hard for me, but after the first 50 pages, I grew accustomed to the flow and got into the story - deeply into the story. It's so emotional! The story embraces the phases of life of 6 characters in conjunction with the timeline of the sun rising (birth), moving through the sky (life) and setting into (death). I will return to this one.
Each sentence a short story. Every paragraph a novel. The pages, a life.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Exclusivamente mediante la poesía, la vida de 6 amigos, tres hombres y tres mujeres, son abarcadas a través de todas las etapas de sus vidas, únicamente mediante la expresión de sus conciencias y la descripción intermitente de una escena etérea: un jardín y una casa vacía desde donde se ven y oyen las olas.
Sin hacer alusión directa a ningún acto físico ni momento particular, [a:Virginia Woolf|6765|Virginia Woolf|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1419596619p2/6765.jpg] rompe absolutamente con la novela para relatar múltiples corrientes de conciencia de forma simultánea, expresando la forma en que seis identidades se gestan en torno a un solo hecho trágico que las reúne. Este texto se lee tal como nosotr@s mism@s experimentamos la vida: de forma errática, carente de un tiempo lineal, ubicándonos en el mundo no directamente mediante nuestros sentidos, sino mediante el texto que generamos en nuestras conciencias en torno a los sucesos, las ideas, y las conciencias de l@s demás. Es decir, en este texto no leemos lo que experimentan los personajes, sus acciones, ni lo que ocurre a su alrededor, sino que los narradores son directamente las corrientes de pensamientos de cada una y cada uno, de manera que eventos como un día de clases, un almuerzo o una boda son retratados sin aludir a los objetos, comportamientos o sucesos que dichos eventos involucran. Es como vivir indirectamente una situación prescindiendo de acceso a los sentidos de los personajes o de narración alguna.
Es un libro exquisito, de una habilidad y novedad increíbles, que exige bastante trabajo mental para quien lo lea (pues es totalmente antagónico a lo lineal, lo objetivo y explícito), pero ofreciendo a cambio la experiencia excepcional de vivir en intimidad la conciencia de seis extraños.
Sin hacer alusión directa a ningún acto físico ni momento particular, [a:Virginia Woolf|6765|Virginia Woolf|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1419596619p2/6765.jpg] rompe absolutamente con la novela para relatar múltiples corrientes de conciencia de forma simultánea, expresando la forma en que seis identidades se gestan en torno a un solo hecho trágico que las reúne. Este texto se lee tal como nosotr@s mism@s experimentamos la vida: de forma errática, carente de un tiempo lineal, ubicándonos en el mundo no directamente mediante nuestros sentidos, sino mediante el texto que generamos en nuestras conciencias en torno a los sucesos, las ideas, y las conciencias de l@s demás. Es decir, en este texto no leemos lo que experimentan los personajes, sus acciones, ni lo que ocurre a su alrededor, sino que los narradores son directamente las corrientes de pensamientos de cada una y cada uno, de manera que eventos como un día de clases, un almuerzo o una boda son retratados sin aludir a los objetos, comportamientos o sucesos que dichos eventos involucran. Es como vivir indirectamente una situación prescindiendo de acceso a los sentidos de los personajes o de narración alguna.
Es un libro exquisito, de una habilidad y novedad increíbles, que exige bastante trabajo mental para quien lo lea (pues es totalmente antagónico a lo lineal, lo objetivo y explícito), pero ofreciendo a cambio la experiencia excepcional de vivir en intimidad la conciencia de seis extraños.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A perfect novel, making the second perfect novel I have read, after Ulysses. I could maybe write more, but what is the point of writing, when it already has been done, perfectly?
Woolf is of course different from Joyce. I have been poisoned by a simplification once read: Woolf is of the mind, Joyce of the body, and that seems probably true to the extent that simplification can be true. And there being difference opens up the point that there are multiple ways of being perfect, or even, lesser goal, being good. So maybe there is reason to write, maybe there is reason to read other things still. Yet the clarity, the beauty, the simplicity -
Woolf is of course different from Joyce. I have been poisoned by a simplification once read: Woolf is of the mind, Joyce of the body, and that seems probably true to the extent that simplification can be true. And there being difference opens up the point that there are multiple ways of being perfect, or even, lesser goal, being good. So maybe there is reason to write, maybe there is reason to read other things still. Yet the clarity, the beauty, the simplicity -
"There is only dialogue," said Taro, "but that's fine. You get completely within each character's head. It's not dialogue, it's internal monologue, stream of consciousness like I witnessed in [b:Orlando|18839|Orlando|Virginia Woolf|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327948609s/18839.jpg|6057225]. I would like to thank Mrs. Woolf for the investigation of psyche that The Waves gives. The sense of time, my goodness the sense of time is crippled. And I don't know much about the physical features of each character - we are introduced to them from inside. Louis has an Australian accent, though, his father is a banker in Brisbane.
"Now that does not detract from anything. In fact near the end I couldn't really tell if there were supposed to be six characters, or really only one, the author's voice in that world. I wish I could really write my review as poetically as Mrs. Woolf, but I'm not that good. It has such a lyrical quality, it is clearly extraordinary, poetry-in-prose style."
And the 'chapter' separations, I never really thought about life as methaphored in a day, but she does it wonderfully. I guess it's only the late morning for me. Better wake up and go outside, or the day is wasted.
Tuesday follows Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday.
"Now that does not detract from anything. In fact near the end I couldn't really tell if there were supposed to be six characters, or really only one, the author's voice in that world. I wish I could really write my review as poetically as Mrs. Woolf, but I'm not that good. It has such a lyrical quality, it is clearly extraordinary, poetry-in-prose style."
And the 'chapter' separations, I never really thought about life as methaphored in a day, but she does it wonderfully. I guess it's only the late morning for me. Better wake up and go outside, or the day is wasted.
Tuesday follows Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday.
Not a casual read. Probably would have liked it more if it had been part of a college level literature class.
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