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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
You don't have to like a protagonist to enjoy a book but even by the sexist standards of the day, Johannes is a total creep. Women are objects to be obtained and once he has manipulated them into falling for him (it's all false) he is bored by them and drops them. Even this arseholery isn't the problem with the book. The problem is that his interior monologue of observations on girls, young women, femininity, womenhood etc etc what it should or shouldn't be done according to him is trite, offensive and incredibly dull. By the middle of this short book I was skimming the pages unable to read any more of his nonsense. His letters I didn't read at all, too boring, too flowery, too false. I hated this!
Entertaining read, written very wittily and usual great phenomenological insights into the aesthetic mode of existence. I confess that it was far too long, though, and lost the plot towards the end. Up until the engagement with Cordelia happens, it is magnificent, after that, it loses focus, is unclear and plotlines are just abandoned. It does seem to be on purpose from Kierkegaard, but still, left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
slow-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
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
La historia es monótona desde el arranque, pero entiendo que no es más que un medio para el divague mental de Kierkegaard.
Interesante la reflexión sobre el placer y la decisión estética para saciar el vacío existencial, el perderse en un plan estético de control que resulta en un instante de placer efímero.
Me gustó la escritura dramática y las reflexiones poéticas, las comparaciones infinitas y las cartas de Cordelia.
Toda la naturaleza existe para otro... existe para el espíritu. Lo mismo pasa con el individuo... Lo mismo se diga de un enigma, de una charada, de un misterio, de una vocal... solo existen para el otro.
Interesante la reflexión sobre el placer y la decisión estética para saciar el vacío existencial, el perderse en un plan estético de control que resulta en un instante de placer efímero.
Me gustó la escritura dramática y las reflexiones poéticas, las comparaciones infinitas y las cartas de Cordelia.
Toda la naturaleza existe para otro... existe para el espíritu. Lo mismo pasa con el individuo... Lo mismo se diga de un enigma, de una charada, de un misterio, de una vocal... solo existen para el otro.
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes