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3.18 AVERAGE
3.18 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
I’m so glad it was only 99 pages so I could finish it so quickly.
challenging
slow-paced
Not a clue tbh and I kind of feel bad but also I could not for the life of me understand any of this
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
If you like Clarice Lispector you will like this novel. If you’re not into post modernism or stream or conscience style, this will not be for you.
"Some stories so need telling, that one is forced to constantly look for new listeners - friends, lovers, so that they can tell them that them repeatedly and from the beginning. With all the details, as if they were completely new. Born again."
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A woman leaves her home in Bratislava, Slovakia, hitting the road through Europe. Told in short poetic vignettes, Beňová's character relates humorous slice-of-life occurrences on the road, as well as the people she encounters along the way.
She has an engaging style, employing clever phrase repetitions (the title Away! Away! being her most common) and experimental forms throughout the slim volume.
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A woman leaves her home in Bratislava, Slovakia, hitting the road through Europe. Told in short poetic vignettes, Beňová's character relates humorous slice-of-life occurrences on the road, as well as the people she encounters along the way.
She has an engaging style, employing clever phrase repetitions (the title Away! Away! being her most common) and experimental forms throughout the slim volume.
I'm sure this book means a lot to others but it was a bit too incomprehensible for me to really enjoy and get into. If you like fragmented writing and stream of consciousness style (which I usually do, it just didn’t work for me in this book), this might be more for you. The prose is a lovely lyrical kind and has some really interesting moments. I also don't know anything about The Snow Queen so I think I am just too uniformed to really get this book.
This is an evocative Slovakian novella about a woman who leaves her husband after experiencing a strong urge to flee. As the story plays out, we see that she came of age during Czechoslovakian independence and a recurring motif throughout her life is an inability to remain in structures that conform to traditional norms (school, job, marriage). The narrative is told in fragments, which feel disjointed, but reinforce the themes of the work.