A review by maycho
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis

3.0

"It had to be written carefully, because only if I wrote it carefully could I deliver over my pain into it."


I have mixed feelings about this one.

Often times, anguish can be a terrible, ugly thing. In this book, you get too see toxicity in yourself (and/or your relationship) being made tangible in the form of Davis's words. On one hand, I really enjoyed this obsessive, heartbroken narrative. It's relateable to some degree for a lot of people. On the other, I found it pitiful and annoying. The narrator comes of whiny and entitled at times.

I did really enjoy the narrator's arc in the end though as well as the writing style.

First time reading a Lydia Davis book and I think I should've read her short story collection, which she is more known for, first. Oh well.