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A review by wojoy
Eve Dönmenin Yolları by Alejandro Zambra, Çiğdem Öztürk
3.0
A good book for a weekend, very fluent. It uses humor occasionally but very effectively while telling on making sense of our relationship with childhood memories and our dismissed role on the atmosphere of those days despite of the burden we carry.
This book represents a diary of an author who is trying to write a book based on his and his country’s past (Chile’s). I liked the book being written throughout the narrative more than the diary actually. It might be caused by my preference of bildungsromans but also my dislike on the fiction of fiction. Fiction of fictions kind of feel like the authors write for other authors or critics when they write on the process of writing (also when they prefer postmodern styles). It’s like reading a technical book with its own jargon. These books are more focused on how things are told than what actually these things are. I’m aware that this is a very rough and ignorant comment since writing is a creative process not to be limited, but it’s only my gut feeling probably to be changed in the future.
This book represents a diary of an author who is trying to write a book based on his and his country’s past (Chile’s). I liked the book being written throughout the narrative more than the diary actually. It might be caused by my preference of bildungsromans but also my dislike on the fiction of fiction. Fiction of fictions kind of feel like the authors write for other authors or critics when they write on the process of writing (also when they prefer postmodern styles). It’s like reading a technical book with its own jargon. These books are more focused on how things are told than what actually these things are. I’m aware that this is a very rough and ignorant comment since writing is a creative process not to be limited, but it’s only my gut feeling probably to be changed in the future.