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3.16 AVERAGE
3.16 AVERAGE
Der Aufbau selbst fand ich gut gemacht, leider waren die kurzen Kapitel der Anderen viel interessanter als die Erinnerungen des unsymphatischen Meisterkritikers. Und ich befürchtete schon, dass diese Delikatesse grosse Lust auf alle genannten Leckereien mache, aber dieses hochgestochene Gelaber war so fern vom Genuss.
If you loved _The Elegance of the Hedgehog_, you may be able to tolerate this. If, however you found yourself skipping major sections of the pretentious, florid prose and navel-gazing, you won't find this much an improvement. Originally published in 2000, but re-released after the success of _Hedgehog_, _Gourmet Rhapsody_ focuses on another resident of the swanky rue de Grenelle apartment house, Pierre Arthens, the illustrious, arrogant food critic. Dying of heart disease, Arthens tortures his memories to recover an elusive taste from his past, while his family, colleagues and others in his orbit (he has no friends) reflect on their tortured history with him. _Rhapsody_ has its moments, but the notion of the grand artiste who is a heartless bastard towards his wife and kids is hardly original, and Arthens' panegyrics to elegant sauces and the perfect vegetables become wearyingly trite and obscene.