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dars 's review for:
The Lying Life of Adults
by Elena Ferrante
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
- Paired readings: The Besieged City
- Coming of age story; often reminded me of this John Steinbeck quote “When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
- Accurate portrayal of that elusive idea of “girlhood”; aching, ugly, full of potential
- Goddamn I love characters that are hard to love
- Coming of age story; often reminded me of this John Steinbeck quote “When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.”
- Accurate portrayal of that elusive idea of “girlhood”; aching, ugly, full of potential
- Goddamn I love characters that are hard to love