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A review by redhickory
Secrets by Drusilla Modjeska
1.0
I was under the impression these pieces where all fiction when I started reading – the one by Modjeska is, the others are not.
The one by Lohrey is a very dry piece which explores why people sing. It comes from a personal place which I couldn’t relate to. The bits and pieces of theory from articles and interviews weren’t smoothly sewn together, it was disjointed and at times rather dull.
The 3 linked pieces by Dessaix were also dull (he explores the nature of arcane mystical secret knowledge), although I do like the way in which he expresses himself (so I kept reading anyway!).
The piece by Modjeska was fiction, and had the most juicy secrets, but the telling was dry and uninvolving. I found myself not caring about the characters or their secrets, which was a shame, as the story really is multi-faceted. It has a surface simplicity, but the secrets revealed raise a number of questions about the nature of identity, history, art and culture, and the way in which secrets influence the formation of some of these identities.
Not a book I'd recommend to any of the readers I know.
The one by Lohrey is a very dry piece which explores why people sing. It comes from a personal place which I couldn’t relate to. The bits and pieces of theory from articles and interviews weren’t smoothly sewn together, it was disjointed and at times rather dull.
The 3 linked pieces by Dessaix were also dull (he explores the nature of arcane mystical secret knowledge), although I do like the way in which he expresses himself (so I kept reading anyway!).
The piece by Modjeska was fiction, and had the most juicy secrets, but the telling was dry and uninvolving. I found myself not caring about the characters or their secrets, which was a shame, as the story really is multi-faceted. It has a surface simplicity, but the secrets revealed raise a number of questions about the nature of identity, history, art and culture, and the way in which secrets influence the formation of some of these identities.
Not a book I'd recommend to any of the readers I know.