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Trieste tijger by Neige Sinno
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Vanaf de openingsparagraaf grijpt Neige Sinno meteen naar je keel en die greep houdt ze doorheen het boek stevig vast. Trieste Tijger is een vernietigend verslag over het seksueel misbruik gepleegd door haar stiefvader van haar zevende tot haar veertiende, en de gevolgen daarvan.
Sinno maakt een portret van zichzelf en haar verkr8er, daalt af naar het verleden en bestudeert hoe dit verleden in het heden doorwerkt. Via een caleidoscoop aan feiten, herinneringen, reflecties en kruisbestuivingen met literatuur (waaronder Lolita van Nabokov en autobiografische teksten van Virginia Woolf) fileert ze de centrale vraag: hoe schrijf je over zoiets gruwelijks?
Dit boek is doortastend, weerzinwekkend, verwoestend, een tornado van stompen in de maag.
Ik heb het obsessief gelezen, met walging voor de gruweldaden, maar bovenal met een groot respect en compassie voor de schrijfster. Gezien het thema en de vele triggers lijkt het mij ongepast om dit zomaar aan iedereen aan te raden, maar ik vind dit echt een meesterlijk geschreven, onvergetelijk boek.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault
Aqua viva by Clarice Lispector
4.0
"I write to you because I don't understand myself."
Clarice Lispector dazzles me. The beauty of her writing is overwhelming. In the introduction Benjamin Moser is fangirling over Lispector and he made me realize why i like her books and stories so much: "Clarice Lispector's weird word choices, strange syntax, and lack of interest in conventional grammar produces sentences - often fragments of sentences - that veer towards abstration without ever quite reaching it. Her goal, mystical as well as artistic, was to rearrange conventional language to find meaning - never to discard it completly."
Aqua Viva is unique: enigmatic, formally innovative, and philosophically profound. This short book is a long letter from a painter and is composed in fragments. The artist seeks to create a language to capture the instances that comprise a lived life.
"The secret harmony of disharmony: I don't want something already made but something still being tortuously made. My unbalanced words are the wealth of my silence. I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak. Though writing only give me the full measure of silence."
I'm so pleased that I saved this book for my vacation so that I could read it greedily, put it down to think and then grab it again.
Clarice Lispector dazzles me. The beauty of her writing is overwhelming. In the introduction Benjamin Moser is fangirling over Lispector and he made me realize why i like her books and stories so much: "Clarice Lispector's weird word choices, strange syntax, and lack of interest in conventional grammar produces sentences - often fragments of sentences - that veer towards abstration without ever quite reaching it. Her goal, mystical as well as artistic, was to rearrange conventional language to find meaning - never to discard it completly."
Aqua Viva is unique: enigmatic, formally innovative, and philosophically profound. This short book is a long letter from a painter and is composed in fragments. The artist seeks to create a language to capture the instances that comprise a lived life.
"The secret harmony of disharmony: I don't want something already made but something still being tortuously made. My unbalanced words are the wealth of my silence. I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak. Though writing only give me the full measure of silence."
I'm so pleased that I saved this book for my vacation so that I could read it greedily, put it down to think and then grab it again.