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dunnya 's review for:
At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
something about french literature, man
there are two things i didn’t like and i think they were unnecessary. anyway, firstly why would you compare the trenches to a woman’s private part? and waiting to “receive them”, waiting for them to “get inside her”? yeah, no. and secondly describing the rumor as a woman’s body too was nasty. you could have used any metaphor under the sun. leave women alone.
now to what i enjoyed about this book:
i like books when they make you think and wonder, is it revenge, avenging his dead friend who died by the hand of the enemy.. but now when will it stop being about the friend and start being about i’m killing and killing and can’t stop? when is it okay to kill because they are the enemy and becomes bad because he’s scaring his mates? when do the morals and ethics come to the picture? i guess never since it’s war or maybe when concerning the mentality of the people around him.
he ascended to madness, pure madness because of the trauma and developed nihilistic mentality. he reminds me so much of the protagonist of notes from the underground by dostoevsky. an amazing character study and very thought provoking.
there are two things i didn’t like and i think they were unnecessary. anyway, firstly why would you compare the trenches to a woman’s private part? and waiting to “receive them”, waiting for them to “get inside her”? yeah, no. and secondly describing the rumor as a woman’s body too was nasty. you could have used any metaphor under the sun. leave women alone.
now to what i enjoyed about this book:
i like books when they make you think and wonder, is it revenge, avenging his dead friend who died by the hand of the enemy.. but now when will it stop being about the friend and start being about i’m killing and killing and can’t stop? when is it okay to kill because they are the enemy and becomes bad because he’s scaring his mates? when do the morals and ethics come to the picture? i guess never since it’s war or maybe when concerning the mentality of the people around him.
he ascended to madness, pure madness because of the trauma and developed nihilistic mentality. he reminds me so much of the protagonist of notes from the underground by dostoevsky. an amazing character study and very thought provoking.