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The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is a 535 pages-long novel written entirely in dream logic. In other word, it was written with a language dictated by the grammar of dreams.
For one thing, I've never read any novel like this one, but it is not a compliment this time.
As in dreams, events and things simply don't make sense.
Sequences don't follow logically, and time-distortion is ample.
This unique trope throughout the entirely novel is simply not working, mainly because of its length.
If the novel was, say, about 200 pages long, I think it would have been a lot stronger.
At times, it is admittedly hypnotic, and I was sucked into the narrative, but the merciless repetition of this trope throughout the entire narrative just didn't work for me.
If it weren't Ishiguro, no publication would have published this novel.
Even after my disappointment at this novel, I still consider this author a genius. I will definitely go back to reading this two masterpieces, The Remains of Day, and Never Let Me Go, in the near future.
For one thing, I've never read any novel like this one, but it is not a compliment this time.
As in dreams, events and things simply don't make sense.
Sequences don't follow logically, and time-distortion is ample.
This unique trope throughout the entirely novel is simply not working, mainly because of its length.
If the novel was, say, about 200 pages long, I think it would have been a lot stronger.
At times, it is admittedly hypnotic, and I was sucked into the narrative, but the merciless repetition of this trope throughout the entire narrative just didn't work for me.
If it weren't Ishiguro, no publication would have published this novel.
Even after my disappointment at this novel, I still consider this author a genius. I will definitely go back to reading this two masterpieces, The Remains of Day, and Never Let Me Go, in the near future.