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The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob

motifenjoyer's review

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challenging

3.0

tjahja180's review against another edition

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3.0

Buku ini bukan bacaan yang dapat dipahami dengan mudah. Meski begitu, terjemahannya enak dibaca.

forever_amber's review against another edition

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4.0

Давам пет звезди на частта „Сестрите на Монел“.
Марсел Швоб е ключова личност в историята на световната литература и култура. Нужно е да се познават причините, поради които написва тази книга, за да се разбере най-добре нейният символ и да се оцени подобаващо по достойнство, което е голямо. Те са много впрочем. Аз обаче някак изгубих интерес на някои места - твърде отвлечено взе да става, дотолкова, че неяснотата почна да дотяга. Аз обичам по-суров изказ, що се отнася до думите и означенията, до физическите проявления на символа. Малките детски лампички, за които се говори много, не ми допаднаха именно поради това. Множеството афоризми също. Сами по себе си - да, но вкупом... Както писах във фейсбук, да създаваш цялост от афоризми е много трудна работа, а най-големият бог на тази дейност е, разбира се, Ницше и никой никога няма да успее да го детронира от това. А когато сравняваш доброто със съвършеното... е, тогава доброто, колкото и да е добро, пак остава в сянка.

akemi_666's review

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5.0

in your absence i have become you and in becoming you i have become absent myself

dariohasread's review against another edition

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3.0

>60/100.
Leído en septiembre de 2021.

steadybaum's review

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5.0

Great read - truly is a symbolist masterpiece. Kept on thinking about Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber which I read first.

vaseem's review

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5.0

"Men seek their joy in memory and reject existence and boast of the world's truth, which is no longer true, having become the truth.
"They grieve in the face of death, which is nothing but the contrivance of their science and their immutable laws; they are sorry to have made the wrong choices for the future, which they have calculated following the logic of past truths, where they make their choices following past desires....

I don't know what to say!

dustandstarlight's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A

4.25

bcxcx's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
I wasn’t sure what French symbolism was until reading this book, and now I’ve had plenty of it. Perhaps if I understood the symbolism better it would be more powerful, but unfortunately most of the book was frustrating to get through. 

Symbolism here is extremely literal; a character will see several vases, each with a particular style, and each of which is filled with some household object, and the combination is clearly meant to represent some kind of concrete theme. Without knowing what, however, it’s like reading an AI’s attempt at a children’s story. 

I wouldn’t recommend reading the whole thing except for historical purposes. 

piccoline's review

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5.0

Schwob is so good, such a unique and strange voice and sensibility. This book, written in the shadow of a great loss, is especially resonant. I'm sure I will return to it often.
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