A review by janu0303
Babel Tower by A.S. Byatt

3.0

Difficult read. Very pedagogical - and that's saying something, since I once plowed through Nabokov's Ada with some fervor. So many threads, all interweaving with remarkable skill - semiotics, sado-erroticism, counter-culture, violence, sex and well...Nietzsche. Of these, I found most interesting the parallel drawn to the obscenity trial of Lawerence's Lady Chatterly's Lover (the book culminates with two full court room trials - one for censorship, and one for divorce).

Truthfully, I think a large part of the book went over my head. It is grandiose, grandiloquent. I would've pegged it as pretentious if I didn't recognize the genius of it in the little that I understood.
Still not sure what to make of this book.