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A review by lory_enterenchanted
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza
mysterious
medium-paced
2.0
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An odd little book that circles around themes of forgery, identity, and general avant garde-ness without gelling in any particular way. The first-person narrator, who has ostensibly been researching the life of a notorious painter of forgeries in Buenos Aires, comes to the conclusion that her writing has actually been about herself - but for the reader, she remains an almost complete cipher. Portrait of an Unknown Lady, indeed. Perhaps that's supposed to be the point, but it left me with a dissatisfied feeling.
An odd little book that circles around themes of forgery, identity, and general avant garde-ness without gelling in any particular way. The first-person narrator, who has ostensibly been researching the life of a notorious painter of forgeries in Buenos Aires, comes to the conclusion that her writing has actually been about herself - but for the reader, she remains an almost complete cipher. Portrait of an Unknown Lady, indeed. Perhaps that's supposed to be the point, but it left me with a dissatisfied feeling.