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Finally reading Kawabata's other masterpiece!!!

Considering this is all background for a murder case, it's a LOTTTT of it

I've really realised that while Henry James is exactly my kind of genius, he isn't for the masses. I was thinking about how to explain the "plot" of what I've read so far and I realised ofc that would be absurd, but also in character study, it's not like I'm learning of types. In fact it's more the interpersonal interactions that really stand out. It's the subtlety of dialogue, the strain of emotion! Beautiful but...

"The vulgar little street, in this view, offered scant relief from the vulgar little room"

"Each time she turned in again, each time, in her impatience, she gave him up, it was to sound to a deeper depth, while she tasted the faint flat emanation of things, the failure of fortune and of honour"

like who tf writes like this!!

So happy to have got This cover!!!

Also just started this and immediately got bowled over by Henry James' prose!!! I feel like I've ascended to a higher plane.

I just realised no one loves Seth 💔

Adam's kind of really hot um 🤤😚

"Oh, my Megan, my little child." Omfg does he have to be so creepy. I really can't get over this 180° turn in his attitude towards her and he still keeps calling her a child but oh when it comes to marriage"she's not a child" huh.

It's the Greek epic season.

Honestly it is a good love triangle. I just wish I personally cared about Stephen. I don't and he's so annoying to me that I can't really root for him.

Do these boys not know when to run omg. It's so fucking scary and they are just sitting there waiting for their turn 😭

Now this is the kind of slow building horror that deserves praise

"What the fucking fuck do you think this is? A fucking Shakespeare tragedy or some fucking shit like this? We’re not fucking letting you—”

Comeonnn this is like a 13 year old who just learned the word fuck. And it's not the first time. No one cusses naturally in this whole book 🤦‍♀️

This writing style is kinda annoying but what's even more annoying is they keep repeating "he's a white guy", "he's a white guy" about one of the male characters like jesus christ i get it. His race is not important enough to be talked about constantly. Get over it. Find another joke.

Might dnf this 🙈😶‍🌫️

So that's what we're teaching our children?! Anti-witch propaganda?? Unbelievable

The protagonist is friends with a rapist. I hope they both die soon 🥰

The way I stopped reading this because it got kind of really boring lol. Still going to finish it. I trust Shirley Jackson.

This is a terrible translation

For once the female protagonist has a decent choice among the men vying for her love in a Hardy novel and YET she prefers the misogynistic older bald spot guy. Elfride dpmo!

Stephen, suppose that I and this man Knight of yours were both drowning, and you could only save one of us——’
‘Yes—the stupid old proposition—which would I save?’ lmao teenagers have always been the same. Elfie is killing me in this scene XD

Finally divorcing her useless af husband yayy!! Only took her like forever but yayy nevertheless

"He liked being told that he resembled Alain Delon." good fucking lord. NEED THAT!

Ch 11: Atp I'm really not sure how Nana's imminent downfall will begin. If what happened to the mare Nana, is a foreshadowing of sorts then now is very much the time she should go up in flames. But the count is so besotted and weak and even beside him she has no lack of lovers and suitors, so I am at a loss to understand what could go wrong, like immediately

Ch 10: She reverted to childish pastimes, covered Bijou with kisses from morning to night, killed time with stupid pursuits, waiting, but only ever for a man, to whom she submitted with weary complaisance. And in the middle of that self-abandonment, her only concern was the way she looked.
Quite scathing. Nana can't get satisfaction from love or money alone and they won't be coming in a pair together.

Ch 9: "I bet you a hundred louis that all those people laughing tonight, I’ll have them worshipping the ground I tread on! Yes, I’ll show your Paris what a fine lady I am!"

Ch 8: Nana is so inflammable, hypocritical, childish and mercurial. She's the darling of a world made just for someone like her. Also all of Nana's lovers are irrelevant so that's nice.

Ch 7:. I think something that I do find surprising in this ocean of characters is that there's not a single person worth rooting or caring for. Nana comes the closest but even she's below the mark. They are all stupid and immoral do stupid and immoral things. A very good critique of society though.

Ch 6: men are such animals. So a short break to the countryside and then back to Paris again.

Ch 5: And now the interminable backstage chaos and the beginning of what is set up to be the greatest love affair of Nana. Men and denizens of this theater know no morals.