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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
inspiring
“I looked at the room with distrust. So there was a roach. Where? Behind the suitcase perhaps. One? two? How many? Behind the motionless silence of the suitcases, perhaps a whole darkness of roaches.“
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
January 2024: It is the beauty of good literature that I can read the same text nearly two years later and still feel overwhelmed by the richness of a novel yet to be determined, wrestled with, etc. One of my words for 2023 was "transformation," and, wow, does this novel exemplify metamorphosis ("beauty was a continuous transmutation"). Riveting, disturbing, and rooted in the ordinary with fantastical implications, Lispector does it again. The Passion is, I will admit, not my favorite of her works (4 star reading experience), but what it accomplishes is so unique that I have no choice but to rate it highly. Where else does the author take the reader by the hand?
"Everything looks at everything, everything lives the other; in the desert things know things. Things know things so much that that's... that's what I'll call forgiveness, if I want to save myself in the human world. It's forgiveness itself. Forgiveness is an attribute of living matter" (61).
Finished this one on the train to Lake Geneva. Happy New Year! <3
March 2022: "I remotely would understand myself later, beneath the memory of the memory of the memory already lost of a time of pain, not knowing that our time of pain would pass just as a child is not a static child, it's a growing being" (112).
Can I just read Lispector forever and ever? Her words give me the most beautiful brain-freeze. In the care of another writer, her truths might come across as a stream of empty platitudes, but Lispector is able to craft revelation with such quiet magnanimity. I may not agree with every statement, but I'm awed. This text is a metaphysical journey; I had to put the book down at "And since living it is our passion. The human condition is the passion of Christ" (185). Wow. There are so many implications there, and, as usual, Lispector seems to somehow gracefully/mischievously/solemnly walk a line between a deep appreciation of the divine and possible heresy. Every page offers food for thought.
"Everything looks at everything, everything lives the other; in the desert things know things. Things know things so much that that's... that's what I'll call forgiveness, if I want to save myself in the human world. It's forgiveness itself. Forgiveness is an attribute of living matter" (61).
Finished this one on the train to Lake Geneva. Happy New Year! <3
March 2022: "I remotely would understand myself later, beneath the memory of the memory of the memory already lost of a time of pain, not knowing that our time of pain would pass just as a child is not a static child, it's a growing being" (112).
Can I just read Lispector forever and ever? Her words give me the most beautiful brain-freeze. In the care of another writer, her truths might come across as a stream of empty platitudes, but Lispector is able to craft revelation with such quiet magnanimity. I may not agree with every statement, but I'm awed. This text is a metaphysical journey; I had to put the book down at "And since living it is our passion. The human condition is the passion of Christ" (185). Wow. There are so many implications there, and, as usual, Lispector seems to somehow gracefully/mischievously/solemnly walk a line between a deep appreciation of the divine and possible heresy. Every page offers food for thought.
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A difficult, lyrical, make you think, disturb you book.
reflective
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Idk it didn't hit I'll try her again but this really wasn't my cup of tea😭