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Halfway through it and although it's certainly good a good book I feel slightly disappointed.
- At sentence level the prose is too conventional (purple prose/distinctive sentences are scarce; here and there metaphors fall in cliches);
- The surrealism works most of the times, therefore the introduction of a dream diary seems gratuitous, otherwise diluting the impact of the surrealist sections;
— Feb 25, 2025 01:06PM
- At sentence level the prose is too conventional (purple prose/distinctive sentences are scarce; here and there metaphors fall in cliches);
- The surrealism works most of the times, therefore the introduction of a dream diary seems gratuitous, otherwise diluting the impact of the surrealist sections;
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Feb 25, 2025 01:11PM
The protagonist alienation lacking either a miserable nihilism (à la Céline) or a tragicomedy facet (à la Bulgakov's Young Doctor Notebook) demais only what it is: pure alienation/detachment (that's not really a critic, possibly it is what the author intends anyway).
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