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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
challenging
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
While inhuman beings, like the roach, carry out their own complete cycle, without ever erring because they do not choose. But it depends on me to freely become whatever I inevitably am. I am the mistress of my inevitability, and, if I decide not to carry it out, I shall remain outside my specifically living nature. But if I carry out my neutral and living nucleus, then, within my species, I shall be being specifically human.
That was a reflective and a challenging read. There were many parts that I had to read more than once to understand, and there were parts that I couldn't no matter what. And I think it's best that way for a first time reader of Lispector, and since this book resonates with not fully grasping any idea. I'm probably going to have to read it again soon to completely comprehend everything to reflect even more from this.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
according to kafka and lispector having a cockroach as muse will lead to great literature
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
Me lo he terminado gracias al club de lectura de la Pantera Rossa. Porque si me lo tengo que leer yo sola lo hubiese abandonado en la página 10.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i hate to say it but this one did not do it for me </3 i DNFed this last year hoping i’d have a better experience returning to it later and… i did not. i’ve often mentioned in my reviews of other lispector books that they work best when you let go of trying to understand every single thing, but too much of this book i simply could not make sense of. kind of ironic because so much of the book is about (not) understanding. the narrator, a sculptress named gh, has an encounter with a cockroach that spirals into philosophical ramblings on the meaning of life and what makes us human. as always, the passages that did resonate were incredibly impactful, but i had a difficult time sifting through to find them. i enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second. not sure what i’m missing here but an apprenticeship, agua viva, and near to the wild heart were much better reads for me.
“But I'm afraid of newness and I'm afraid of living whatever I don't understand-I always want to be sure to at least think I understand, I don't know how to give myself over to disorientation. How could I explain that my greatest fear is precisely of: being? and yet there is no other way. How can I explain that my greatest fear is living whatever comes? how to explain that I can't stand seeing, just because life isn't what I thought but something else-as if I knew what! Why is seeing such disorganization?”
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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