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A review by fishface
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
4.0
This was the perfect length of novel for me to cover the anxieties and guilt that the author explores over the morality and inevitability of his actions. Any more than 100 pages and it’d get a bit too depressing for me. I love cats, but this doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy a book in which cats are killed- I mean, it’s described as descending into horror on the back what did you expect…
my interpretation as I went along of the content was that the cats are both real and also represent the narrators desire for love and companionship. As his anxieties build up over time his perception of his own desires for these things merge into the suicidal self loathing that it expressed in the killing of the kittens (a reflection of himself weak and helpless) but not quite the deed itself. Feeling overwhelmed by things you love is heartbreaking.
my interpretation as I went along of the content was that the cats are both real and also represent the narrators desire for love and companionship. As his anxieties build up over time his perception of his own desires for these things merge into the suicidal self loathing that it expressed in the killing of the kittens (a reflection of himself weak and helpless) but not quite the deed itself. Feeling overwhelmed by things you love is heartbreaking.