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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
Coming back to say this might be my top fave classic.
Everyone warned me this book was heartbreaking, gut wrenching, sad beyond words. (You may be thinking, and you still read it? Yes. Of course? Come on now) The warnings I got were very much correct - this book was deeply sad, but surprisingly, not in the sucker punching, shocking way I expected it would be.
Hardy harbours a quiet melancholy that broods rhe story of Jude and his many ambitions in life, which in turn are stunted by numerous obstacles - the most prominent being that of the relationships he has. The ending of this book shocked me to my core but in such a still and frankly eerie manner, that it really sat with me, and I had to reflect on Jude’s whole life, thinking why did we get there? (No spoilers)
The reason I initially picked up Jude the Obscure was because I heard someone mark out the similarities between this Jude and the much loved Jude St. Francis of A Little Life. Well, I now see the vision and it’s definitely interesting to see how Jude from A Little Life is a modern example of the tragedies of Jude the Obscure.
Also idk why but I love the name - Jude the Obscure!
Yet another fictional Jude that will randomly pop into my head for the rest of my life and haunt my soul
Everyone warned me this book was heartbreaking, gut wrenching, sad beyond words. (You may be thinking, and you still read it? Yes. Of course? Come on now) The warnings I got were very much correct - this book was deeply sad, but surprisingly, not in the sucker punching, shocking way I expected it would be.
Hardy harbours a quiet melancholy that broods rhe story of Jude and his many ambitions in life, which in turn are stunted by numerous obstacles - the most prominent being that of the relationships he has. The ending of this book shocked me to my core but in such a still and frankly eerie manner, that it really sat with me, and I had to reflect on Jude’s whole life, thinking why did we get there? (No spoilers)
The reason I initially picked up Jude the Obscure was because I heard someone mark out the similarities between this Jude and the much loved Jude St. Francis of A Little Life. Well, I now see the vision and it’s definitely interesting to see how Jude from A Little Life is a modern example of the tragedies of Jude the Obscure.
Also idk why but I love the name - Jude the Obscure!
Yet another fictional Jude that will randomly pop into my head for the rest of my life and haunt my soul