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A review by austindoherty
Asa, as I Knew Him by Susanna Kaysen
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Half about the Protestant erotic fascination with the other, half the feeling of maternal tenderness when you discover your boyfriend's baby pictures.
Obsessed with Dr Sola draining his pool, which somehow contains for me all of literature: the desire to re-enact, to simultaneously convey and control, to contemplate the mystery of a river only to discover in turn the prose of a concrete bottomed pool. The gap between expression and experience, what cures and what ails us, Dr Sola draining his pool is as much Dinah writing Asa as it is Kaysen writing Dinah. What don't you know, and how has that not stopped you from knowing it?
Obsessed with Dr Sola draining his pool, which somehow contains for me all of literature: the desire to re-enact, to simultaneously convey and control, to contemplate the mystery of a river only to discover in turn the prose of a concrete bottomed pool. The gap between expression and experience, what cures and what ails us, Dr Sola draining his pool is as much Dinah writing Asa as it is Kaysen writing Dinah. What don't you know, and how has that not stopped you from knowing it?