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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Trata-se de um livro notável. Philip Roth escreve sobre as contradições existentes na América dos anos 90. Temos questões como o racismo, o amor, os judeus, o sexo na terceira idade, o politicamente correto, a guerra do Vietname, entre outros. Mas é sobretudo o tema da liberdade e o preço que se paga para se construir uma identidade própria, o eixo principal.
A Mancha Humana agarra o leitor pela descrição emocional de cada uma das personagens presentes. Todas se interligam e acabam por explicar a essência da personalidade de Coleman Silk.
A Mancha Humana agarra o leitor pela descrição emocional de cada uma das personagens presentes. Todas se interligam e acabam por explicar a essência da personalidade de Coleman Silk.
For a book about ice fishing, I learned a lot about cancel culture!
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A masterpiece. A writer at the top of his game weaving together a fascinating personal story with national questions of purity exercises, forgiveness, independence, cancellations, secrets, and personal relationships. Does forcefully forging who you want to become repudiate your past? When does choosing self forsake those who have helped build your foundation? How do the secrets we keep affect our relationships? What moral failures merit flagellations and which purity exercises are puritanical rage run amuck?
There were times early on that the book was not clicking for me (sexualization of cow milking and the whole overheard conversation about dominating Monica Lewinsky) but the narrative fell into place for me and absolutely flew. I found myself furiously scribbling notes on every other page and underlining entire passages with a breathless “Beautiful” written next to them.
The lasting impression for me is threefold: 1) Roth saw in the Clinton affair the early signs of a national crisis around mass fake/puffed-up purity trampling individuals as an early sign of cancel culture 2) Roth wrote with a white-hot ire, indicting us all through individual characters as bystanders, unwitting perpetrators, or drivers of a silencing of individuals who dared to blaze their own path while allowing for a questioning of independence as its own exercise of refuting possible personal frameworks and foundations 3) Truly knowing people is futile but being open to deeply held secrets, providing space without judgement, is a grace that should be celebrated.
I will miss reading this book.
There were times early on that the book was not clicking for me (sexualization of cow milking and the whole overheard conversation about dominating Monica Lewinsky) but the narrative fell into place for me and absolutely flew. I found myself furiously scribbling notes on every other page and underlining entire passages with a breathless “Beautiful” written next to them.
The lasting impression for me is threefold: 1) Roth saw in the Clinton affair the early signs of a national crisis around mass fake/puffed-up purity trampling individuals as an early sign of cancel culture 2) Roth wrote with a white-hot ire, indicting us all through individual characters as bystanders, unwitting perpetrators, or drivers of a silencing of individuals who dared to blaze their own path while allowing for a questioning of independence as its own exercise of refuting possible personal frameworks and foundations 3) Truly knowing people is futile but being open to deeply held secrets, providing space without judgement, is a grace that should be celebrated.
I will miss reading this book.
Meandering and weird. I wanted to hate this, but it was so good !!!! I don’t know how I feel about everything that happened, and I don’t know if I agree with every take. But this was an insane journey and super introspective and I can’t stop thinking about it.
Philip Roth’s American Trilogy (American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain) collectively are a masterwork of modern literature. The paint a picture of the last half of the 20th Century in America that delves deeply into the American consciousness. One of the most satisfying collection of reads in a long time. I think I avoided Roth for years because I had picked up in my very limited knowledge of him that he was a flaming asshole. Maybe so but he’s an asshole who can write like few others.
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes