Deborah's review
Identity: A Novel
by Milan Kundera
Deborah's review
Identity: A Novel by Milan Kundera
Deborah's review
rating:
Hey look! A clean little vignette about perception and how we know each other and in the exercise he manages to actually write honestly about a woman because the entire book is about being honest about perspective and...wait for it...identity!
Well...that's all lovely in theory.
In practice the book takes a wrong turn where he completely loses the plot and ends in a fucking St. Elsewhere clusterfuck that actually hurt my feelings.
So 4 stars for the concept and the execution and his growth as a writer recognizing how perception influences identity, including the identities we create for other people, and for the characters as they're written...all the lovely layers...up until the argument at the end of the novel escalates.
And then negative 100 stars for the ending.
Well...that's all lovely in theory.
In practice the book takes a wrong turn where he completely loses the plot and ends in a fucking St. Elsewhere clusterfuck that actually hurt my feelings.
So 4 stars for the concept and the execution and his growth as a writer recognizing how perception influences identity, including the identities we create for other people, and for the characters as they're written...all the lovely layers...up until the argument at the end of the novel escalates.
And then negative 100 stars for the ending.
