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Chargement... Too Much and Not the Mood: Essayspar Durga Chew-Bose
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 3.5, really. Smart, lush, occasionally insightful, often self-indulgent in a way I was sometimes maddened by but am fundamentally unable to condemn. A little bit fuckor, on that point. I read this book with Virginia Woolf half in mind, partially because she often is and partially because this book pulls its title from her diary. There are some similarities, but Chew-Bose's tendency to talk around things feels less vital and clear than Woolf's. This book has revealing moments, but few revelations. ( ) I wanted to like this but I couldn't stand it. To me it read like a commencement speech. It'd be one thing if it were merely corny, but it feels worse than that, it feels like advertising copy. Like if every one of these paragraphs ended with "Folger's" or "Nabisco" I might like it better. I feel bad because I have been such a hater lately, and maybe this book is bearing the brunt of things I don't like. But really.... where are the nasty bitches?? The pieces on cinema are the best. Chew-Bose pinpoints why movies are magic, particularly in the Summer! Durga’s insights on how culture and ethnicity are still subtly undermined even between well-meaning friends are familiar to me. Read the book if you like contemplating on art or literature, or you like New York City life. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice"--
"On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying. The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to write and collect her own work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. Inspired by Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Lydia Davis's short prose, and Vivian Gornick's exploration of interior life, Chew-Bose captures the inner restlessness that keeps her always on the brink of creative expression. Too Much and Not the Mood is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a first-generation, creative young woman working today."--Back cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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