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A review by komposxoini
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
omg!!!!!
How musical and heartfelt and cozy and exciting and mellow at once. The impressionable, imaginative mind of the child seeping into the adult-self's soliloquy. The child's words lyrical and raw (would be an oxymoron but not in this case - "we look at the world once, in childhood; the rest is memory") flowing into the adult's (parent's?) narration. The narrator renders u sensitive and open with all the anakoloutha and the humor arising coincidentally from the child's uncultivated speech, makes u as impressionable as this young kid who's seeing everything for the first time bc dylan's prose defamiliarizes and makes new and fresh everything good about the world. Very meta but not in a way that makes the text appear ashamed/afraid of itself, as all the metalanguage balances out the emotional narrative of the younger self. Radiates a sense of comfort, a smell of salty air, a vague feeling of the Numinous. Leaves you with a bittersweet taste. No doubt the narrator shares the feeling. Still, he hasnt lost his special gift of being able to view the world with his inner-child's eye, making it new again and again and again through wonderful words words words.
How musical and heartfelt and cozy and exciting and mellow at once. The impressionable, imaginative mind of the child seeping into the adult-self's soliloquy. The child's words lyrical and raw (would be an oxymoron but not in this case - "we look at the world once, in childhood; the rest is memory") flowing into the adult's (parent's?) narration. The narrator renders u sensitive and open with all the anakoloutha and the humor arising coincidentally from the child's uncultivated speech, makes u as impressionable as this young kid who's seeing everything for the first time bc dylan's prose defamiliarizes and makes new and fresh everything good about the world. Very meta but not in a way that makes the text appear ashamed/afraid of itself, as all the metalanguage balances out the emotional narrative of the younger self. Radiates a sense of comfort, a smell of salty air, a vague feeling of the Numinous. Leaves you with a bittersweet taste. No doubt the narrator shares the feeling. Still, he hasnt lost his special gift of being able to view the world with his inner-child's eye, making it new again and again and again through wonderful words words words.