Status Updates From The Obscene Bird of Night

loving this book but also having a bad time reading it

Eles não eram capazes de viver sem a presença de meu olhar invejoso criando sua felicidade, a dor de meus olhos que os contemplava ia fornecendo a ventura que eles consumiam.

que cara amargurado mds

«Todo lo necesario desaparece. Queda sólo lo inútil»

He sufrido esta lectura, elijo muy a dedo los momentos en los que la retomo, entiendo y admiro su calidad, pero me cuesta hacerme el ánimo de tomar un libro así.

me divertindo muito com a mistura de vozes narrativas que acontece aqui. as vezes simplesmente não dá pra saber quando é o mudito ou a madre benita quem fala, e já estou pensando se tudo não é só uma alucinação muito que vívida do primeiro... já li uns tantos livros com isso de mistura da realidade com alucinações ao longo da história, mas aqui os limites já começam completamente borrados, fica bem mais instigante...

“Old women like Peta Ponce have the power to fold time over and confuse it, they multiply and divide it, events are refracted in their gnarled hands as in the most brilliant prism, they cut the consecutive happening of things into fragments they arrange in parallel form, they bend those fragments and twist them into shapes that enable them to carry out their designs.”

“I'm not even in love with you. You don't even awaken in me one of those aberrant nostalgia that men my age feel with the proximity of a young life: you are an inferior being, Iris Mateluna, a piece of primary existence that surrounds a reproductive uterus so central to your person that all the rest of your being is a superfluous shell…”

“today I’m myself and tomorrow no one can find me, not even I myself, because you’re what you are only for as long as the disguise lasts.”

"The novel is ultimately about a frustrated, stunted identity: its main character or uncentered polyphonous narrator is imbunche, a thwarted, mutilated man enclosed within various prisons both chosen and imposed, and he struggles to be seen and to communicate in a world that shifts from realistic to monstrous to sordid. "

Everyone's crazy, I'm crazy

o narrador é esquisitinho do jeito que eu gosto

нарешті ми починаєм збирати цей пазл, що створює Доносо