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A review by leelulah
Mercy by Andrea Dworkin
1.0
I respect Andrea Dworkin, it's just her fiction doesn't do it for me. It happened with The New Woman's Broken Heart, as well. This is cruel after cruel thing done to a girl then woman named Andrea you can never separate from her even though you try to. About how she feels abandoned by God, used, not like anyone believes in her at all.
I understand that the many themes she tackles are serious, but this stream of consciousness is not like Woolf's. She also refused the idea that this book is entirely confessional, this seems to be the ghost women are perpetually escaping as a dismissive attitude towards their work, as if they had no depth because they were writing partly based on personal things, but it's deep when men do it.
Again, my quarrel is with the style, she sure talks about realism in the first pages, but this is just postmodern unreadable writing.
I much prefer her academic work. If you have to read about her life, read Heartbreak instead, it's much more rigorous in the sense of an autobiography.
I understand that the many themes she tackles are serious, but this stream of consciousness is not like Woolf's. She also refused the idea that this book is entirely confessional, this seems to be the ghost women are perpetually escaping as a dismissive attitude towards their work, as if they had no depth because they were writing partly based on personal things, but it's deep when men do it.
Again, my quarrel is with the style, she sure talks about realism in the first pages, but this is just postmodern unreadable writing.
I much prefer her academic work. If you have to read about her life, read Heartbreak instead, it's much more rigorous in the sense of an autobiography.