Ester Romero itibaren Les Poulières, France

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05/04/2024

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2019-04-22 10:40

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I came to this book expecting something light and full of fluff, in the vein of Matthew Polly or a slightly more licentious A.J. Jacobs (whose cover quote came as no surprise whatever). Instead, it hit me really, really hard. Parts of Roose's story are weirdly resonant: I was raised an evangelical Protestant, attended 2 years of middle school in much the same conservative atmosphere, and have been surrounded by the ideas, attitudes and emphases surrounding Liberty throughout my life: I know plenty of porn-battling, Hannity-listening, purity ring-wearing creationist Christians, and have always felt out of place with my Inner-Light seeking, diversity-accepting predilections. As a matter of fact, I'm a Christian who leans decidedly Quaker-ward (I really liked his insight regarding Quakerism). Basically the book deals with the same issues I've been for years. That's why I left this book conflicted: it was easy to wish he had been more condemnatory of the more odious aspects of the Christian Right, but he also shows the importance of open-mindedness, while keeping a grip on your own convictions. While also being willing to change them. See? These are really big questions, and Roose asks them with an honesty and earnestness that forces you to answer them. I don't know that he ever really answers them for anyone but himself, but that's the point, I suppose. Interesting book, to understate it. (As a side note, I went to the website, took the quiz...and made a perfect score.)

2019-04-22 13:40

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Sometimes you know from the very first words in a novel: I’m gonna’ like where this takes me. Now, as I start All Souls (and this review), I’ve read over 1600 pages penned by Marías, and he never fails to catch me up immediately and run with me. In this novel’s case, by the narrator’s distancing of himself from the character he was at the time of the events he’s yet to reveal. An unnamed Spanish professor at Oxford teaching contemporary Spanish literature and translation (during the classes for which he lies outrageously to his students about the meanings and etymologies of obscure Spanish words) recounts his experiences at the university, the true natures of the faculty, and his affair with the wife of another faculty member. His account of high tables, the dinner where he meets his future lover, is Marías operating at the most comic level I’ve yet seen in his work. Amid the formality of high tables’ etiquette, which in this case degenerates rather quickly due, in part. to the drunken lechery of the Warden [he who officiates at said dinner], Marías glides effortlessly from the rendering of the evening’s havoc to a characteristic passage of great beauty: It’s getting close to the girl’s bedtime, but before she goes one more train must pass, just one more, because the fresh image of the passing train and of the river illuminated by its windows (the men on the barge look up at it and grow dizzy) helps her to go to sleep and come to terms with the idea of spending another day in a city to which she does not belong and which she will only perceive as hers once she has left it and when her only chance to recall it out loud will be with her son or her lover. The description is that of the narrator considering, not only the childhood of his soon-to-be lover and her earliest years spent in India or Egypt, but also the evaluative looks the two share over the course of the dinner; one of those passages which seems to say everything, and then ultimately says even more. The high tables debacle briefly mentions the attendance of one Toby Rylands, a character who plays a significant role in the Your Face Tomorrow sequence and leads me to assume the narrator of that sequence is the narrator of this book (I could verify that, I suppose, but I’m too lazy, think it doesn’t really matter, and would rather readers of this review read those novels as well—having read further now, it seems apparent the narrator of this and YFT are in fact the same man, he goes unnamed in this novel). At turns reflective, comic, then poignant, this is the one I wish I’d started my Marías odyssey with—characters pop in and out of subsequent novels, playing large roles in one and minor roles in the next—weaving stories back on themselves and other stories—for fans of The Sea Came in at Midnight, the works of Marías operate on a larger, if not epic scale. This one leaves me psyched for Dark Back of Time, a novel in which the Real members of the Oxford community during the narrator’s (Marías’ ?) stay there react to their portrayal in this novel. Called a ‘false novel’ by its creator (odd itself, in that, the characters of that novel are supposed to be the real Oxfordians, promises to be equally compelling.

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