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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
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Complicated
3.25
I don’t have much to say about the book but it was all over the place lol.
I don’t have much to say about the book but it was all over the place lol.
it’s a bit too much for me at the moment
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
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Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
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N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is a book meant to be slow chewed, pondered, and admired. This a book that should be read out loud every night one paragraph to challenge your thoughts and relationship with self and others. I will be reading this book multiple times in life and every time it will mean something different. THIS is a living breathing piece of art.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
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Character
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N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
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N/A
My fourth Lispector.
A concaving, deceptively aimless, Kant-adjacent discourse on what it means to be, to exist as a creature in this world; but also on the act of writing itself, as if all these words are issuing forth from her like an unstoppable avalanche, as if to suggest that our very reading of this novel is us practicing necromancy, resurrecting her. Not only about the birth of consciousness but of perceptiveness; what your eyes, ears, and hands trick you into believing what is "real."
Certain passages reminded me of scenes or themes from THE APPLE IN THE DARK and THE BESIEGED CITY, as if those novels still provoke her.
I'd be curious to read Cixous' translation (if I knew French), since this novel is also steeped in feminine distress and joy.
A concaving, deceptively aimless, Kant-adjacent discourse on what it means to be, to exist as a creature in this world; but also on the act of writing itself, as if all these words are issuing forth from her like an unstoppable avalanche, as if to suggest that our very reading of this novel is us practicing necromancy, resurrecting her. Not only about the birth of consciousness but of perceptiveness; what your eyes, ears, and hands trick you into believing what is "real."
Certain passages reminded me of scenes or themes from THE APPLE IN THE DARK and THE BESIEGED CITY, as if those novels still provoke her.
I'd be curious to read Cixous' translation (if I knew French), since this novel is also steeped in feminine distress and joy.
so fragmented, scary, comforting, strange. a certain lilt you have to lean into - hard. one to revisit over and over and over whenever you must have a thought.
Definitely my favourite Lispector so far. I couldn’t connect much with the others, but I found this one intuitively understandable despite its flowing form. No plot here, just vibes - a collection of thoughts, musings, stream of consciousness if you will. One that I could see myself coming back to again and again.
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
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i changed my mind i actually really like this