Reviews - Viaggio nel buio

241 reviews for:

Viaggio nel buio

Jean Rhys, Delfina Vezzoli

3.73 AVERAGE

sarapocher98's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kaileycool's review against another edition

5.0

Life is so unfair and British men are awful.

chairmanbernanke's review against another edition

4.0

A good story of growth and relationships

wisch's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Depressing, poetic, stream of consciousness, surreal. The reader is strangely removed from the protagonist's feelings as she herself is fighting for basic needs like food and warmth; and drifting with no support.

ruthys_library's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

whowillrunthefroghospital's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kmccaull's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My Year of Rest and Relaxation had to have been majorly inspired by this book. Anna Morgan is OG ‘girl opting out of society’. Have many mixed feelings on this book but overall I think I liked it a lot. Def the kind of book that takes some extra thinking to appreciate it. Very much a novel of modernism so the writing can be a bit funky which I kind of love. A more impactful and complicated novel when paired with Anne Cunningham’s essay: “‘Get on or Get Out’: Failure and Negative Femininity in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark.” Is Anna’s refusal to get her life going actually an act of feminism? Anyway poor girl would’ve loved SSRIs and social media nostalgia.

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