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hwancroos's review against another edition
4.0
Es la guerra. La noticia atraviesa Francia y afecta a todos, no importa si sos burgués, vagabundo, prostituta, militar o un niño mimado. Para mostrar los efectos y las consecuencias de la noticia, Sartre recurre a la intercalación de líneas narrativas de una multiplicidad de personajes que se presentan y no siempre se retoman. Esta multiplicidad se ve plasmada a través de diálogos o pensamientos que inicia un personaje y se mezclan con las voces de otros, en una técnica que si bien al principio parece un poco confusa, Sartre despliega con genialidad.
No se trata tan sólo de cómo la guerra afecta la vida de cada personaje en términos prácticos, sino de la reacción de cada uno de ellos ante este evento histórico, de cómo se enfrenta cada pequeña individualidad ante semejante evento colectivo. Ante la movilización decretada por el gobierno francés, algunos encuentran un sentido a su vida, otros parecen perderlo, otros -paradójicamente- ven en acatar la movilización un acto de libertad, mientras que en algunos se exacerba su lado más revolucionario. En ciertos pasajes, me recordó a Guerra y paz.
Reaparecen los personajes del primer libro, aunque su protagonismo se ve claramente diluido por esta multiplicidad de voces que plantea Sartre. Si bien Mateo sigue siendo el protagonista, las apariciones de Boris, Ivich, Daniel y Marcela -y las del propio Mateo- son más espaciadas y atenuadas.
Muy distinto al primer libro de la trilogía, igual de recomendable.
No se trata tan sólo de cómo la guerra afecta la vida de cada personaje en términos prácticos, sino de la reacción de cada uno de ellos ante este evento histórico, de cómo se enfrenta cada pequeña individualidad ante semejante evento colectivo. Ante la movilización decretada por el gobierno francés, algunos encuentran un sentido a su vida, otros parecen perderlo, otros -paradójicamente- ven en acatar la movilización un acto de libertad, mientras que en algunos se exacerba su lado más revolucionario. En ciertos pasajes, me recordó a Guerra y paz.
Reaparecen los personajes del primer libro, aunque su protagonismo se ve claramente diluido por esta multiplicidad de voces que plantea Sartre. Si bien Mateo sigue siendo el protagonista, las apariciones de Boris, Ivich, Daniel y Marcela -y las del propio Mateo- son más espaciadas y atenuadas.
Muy distinto al primer libro de la trilogía, igual de recomendable.
anneeeee's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
wolfiedude14's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.5
It was interesting of Sartre to choose an event preceding World War 2 that wouldn't actually culminate in its beginning. It allows us to watch all these characters come to terms with this impending destiny-like event, watch them all consider their lives as geared toward a particular fate, only to drop every facet of that thinking as soon as war seems to be avoided.
Once again, Sartre is concerned with freedom, but unlike in his early novel Nausea, and even to some extent the previous novel in this trilogy The Age of Reason, he seems to afford characters a lot more development and interaction, hence the choice to use a very slipstream narrative that jumps between characters and narrative style, third person to first person, focalised to complete blurs in specificity. Not only does this add very much to this dizzying sense of humanity slurring together, it fits also with the daze of the heatwave and the fear of something concretely happening, a fear that grows until it becomes something you instead desire—let something happen, even if it be war.
This realm of being in-the-world is something I think Sartre progressively develops, and is important as a whole for his philosophy. It's an important contribution not just to literature, showing that pages and pages of a single character thinking in this solipsistic manner isn't the only way to go, but also going to highlight the significance of what creates the "Cartesian Subject" as it were. It isn't sitting in an isolated room by a fire and thinking that affords us the world and what to think about; it is others that afford us ourselves
Once again, Sartre is concerned with freedom, but unlike in his early novel Nausea, and even to some extent the previous novel in this trilogy The Age of Reason, he seems to afford characters a lot more development and interaction, hence the choice to use a very slipstream narrative that jumps between characters and narrative style, third person to first person, focalised to complete blurs in specificity. Not only does this add very much to this dizzying sense of humanity slurring together, it fits also with the daze of the heatwave and the fear of something concretely happening, a fear that grows until it becomes something you instead desire—let something happen, even if it be war.
This realm of being in-the-world is something I think Sartre progressively develops, and is important as a whole for his philosophy. It's an important contribution not just to literature, showing that pages and pages of a single character thinking in this solipsistic manner isn't the only way to go, but also going to highlight the significance of what creates the "Cartesian Subject" as it were. It isn't sitting in an isolated room by a fire and thinking that affords us the world and what to think about; it is others that afford us ourselves
skttrbrn's review against another edition
4.0
Certainly one of the most advanced novels I've yet read, Sartre's prose is uniquely satisfying - intricate details of pleasure and pain, as well as his characters' innermost thoughts provide a depth I've rarly seen elsewhere. The rapid changes of perspective were often difficult to keep up with, but this became easier as my familiarity with the characters grew.
tsabitafifah's review against another edition
4.0
A little bit more complicated than the previous one, Age of Reason.
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