Jorge Comensal
Auteur van The Mutations : A Novel
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- Werken
- 6
- Leden
- 46
- Populariteit
- #335,831
- Waardering
- 3.4
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- 3
- ISBNs
- 17
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- 3
This is a hard novel to pay attention to, to the level it demands to be paid attention to, and yet it rewards your attention absolutely. On a sentence level it's beautiful. On a story level it's fragmentary, snatching you away again and again from a story line you want to stay in and leaping away into another scene, other characters. Thematically it tackles a fundamental question in life: how a person faces death, and makes sense of his/her own mortality. It's a brave book because Comensal never allows the least bit of romanticization, or faith in the world to come, or any other thing to distract the reader from the fragmentary, absurd way we humans go about dying. A tough, rewarding read.… (meer)