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limbico's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.25
solusipse's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
nunuseli's review against another edition
5.0
Un personaje con una vida totalmente gris + toques existencialistas + pura metaliteratura + el clásico tema de la sutil frontera que hay entre realidad y ficción = una combinación que es imposible que no me fascine.
elemmakil's review against another edition
2.0
Olipas raivostuttava kirja. Tarina itsessään oli keskinkertainen, ennalta arvattava, sellainen jonka on lukenut ja nähnyt kymmeniä kertoja, mutta tekniikoilla kikkailu oli raivostuttavaa. Viimeistään siinä vaiheessa kun päähahmo menee kirjailijan itsensä (siis Unamunon) luo kylään puhumaan omasta kohtalostaan, niin tajusin, että tämä kirja ei ole minulle. Pyörittelin silmiäni viimeiset muutama kymmentä sivua.
gswain's review against another edition
3.0
At the beginning the book reminded me of Shakespeare and Dickens. Thoughout the book there were times of too much description for my liking, but around chapter 30 things got interesting. In the end you are left with questions of immortality and what it real or not.
gongo's review against another edition
3.0
Me sabe fatal darle pocas estrellas a un libro tan remarcado, pero es que verdaderamente me ha aburrido en algunas partes.
Es tan rompedor y tiene un mensaje tan bonito que me dan ganas de ponerle 5 estrellas a posteriori, pero no sería justo.
La idea de que los autores dan vida a sus personajes y vierten su propia alma en ellos es bonita bonita. Augusto Pérez le dice a Unamuno algo así como: "tenga cuidado, no vaya a ser que exista usted únicamente para contar mi historia" y es que qué chulada.
Es tan rompedor y tiene un mensaje tan bonito que me dan ganas de ponerle 5 estrellas a posteriori, pero no sería justo.
La idea de que los autores dan vida a sus personajes y vierten su propia alma en ellos es bonita bonita. Augusto Pérez le dice a Unamuno algo así como: "tenga cuidado, no vaya a ser que exista usted únicamente para contar mi historia" y es que qué chulada.
malink1199's review against another edition
5.0
Me ha gustado mucho el concepto de nivola, como habla Unamuno con el personaje y con el lector, y como hace diálogos de lo que serían parrafos largos o monólogos. También me ha gustado como divaga el protagonista, que piensa en mil cosas a la vez y de cada una saca otras tantas ramificaciones. Genial.
gwendle_vs_literature's review against another edition
medium-paced
3.5
I discovered that this book exists when a conversation meandered in such a direction that it lead me to wonder whether the movie Stranger Than Fiction was based on a book. It wasn’t, but apparently it was inspired by Miguel de Unamuno’s Niebla (variously translated as “Fog” or “Mist”) which is often credited as being the first work of Magical Realism, and with which it shares its central conceit; a man discovers that he is a character in a work of fiction, and the writer is going to kill him.
This is a dense text, a little bit difficult to get through — like other modernist texts it’s a bit dense with some stream of consciousness, and like other absurdist texts it’s a little all over the place, dragging it’s heels through the inconsequential, and then finding itself at major plot points with very little indication of how it arrived there. Much of the humour falls a little flat more than a century after it was written, but the same is true of almost everything. And reading a work in translation tends to add another layer of obfuscation since cultural and linguistic differences (even of contemporary works, let alone works from 100+ years ago) something is always lost.
It’s an okay story, and apparently a highly influential one, so I’m glad I read it — but I struggled to enjoy it. If I revisit it in a few years (which I likely will given the trouble I went through to get my hands on a copy in English translation) I might like it more.
This is a dense text, a little bit difficult to get through — like other modernist texts it’s a bit dense with some stream of consciousness, and like other absurdist texts it’s a little all over the place, dragging it’s heels through the inconsequential, and then finding itself at major plot points with very little indication of how it arrived there. Much of the humour falls a little flat more than a century after it was written, but the same is true of almost everything. And reading a work in translation tends to add another layer of obfuscation since cultural and linguistic differences (even of contemporary works, let alone works from 100+ years ago) something is always lost.
It’s an okay story, and apparently a highly influential one, so I’m glad I read it — but I struggled to enjoy it. If I revisit it in a few years (which I likely will given the trouble I went through to get my hands on a copy in English translation) I might like it more.
irati_naranjo's review against another edition
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0