ryojii
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Post by ryojii on Oct 28, 2007 7:03:10 GMT -5
... by Milan Kundera. Right now, Michelle is borrowing it and she could attest to its greatness. It's a post modern piece of work, but it's pretty -guitarifts- EXCELLENT! It focuses on four refracting lives: a surgeon, his wife, his mistress, and the mistress's boyfriend. I know it sounds weird, but Milan really works with it. Usually when a kind of set-up like that gets into an American writer's hands, you KNOW there's going to be a lot of drama and campy dialogue, but this story is extremely accomplished in the way that it transcends that and almost goes through a soulless scientific breakdown of the characters, their relationships, their personalities, and their thoughts. It has a bit of a voyeuristic feel to it at times because of how deep it penetrates the thought processes of these people.
The writing is deceptively simple, though it does tend to diverge on philosophical tangents.
It's just one of those enjoyable reads that has shaped my own prose.
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