Kevin Ding’s Reviews > Beautiful World, Where Are You > Status Update

There's something Godardian, or even Brechtian, about Sally Rooney's writing. But if Normal People is Breathless, then this is Une femme mariée or Masculin féminin. Her socialism is a bit interesting, but this 'beautiful world' receding into darkness, it is written from such a Eurocentric cultural perspective. Maybe that's the point. Back to Godard again, her characters really are 'children of Marx and Coca-Cola'