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Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy

eliss02's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

adriarato's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

4.75

hilmerjj's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

chfugal's review

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medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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antoesis's review against another edition

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4.0

"Tengo que escribir estos textos mientras ella está viva, mientras no haya muerte o clausura, para tratar de entender este estar/no estar de una persona que se desarticula ante mis ojos. Tengo que hacerlo así para seguir adelante, para hacer durar una relación que continúa pese a la ruina, que subsiste aunque apenas queden palabras"

Un relato tan breve pero tan profundo. Me ha conmovido mucho porque pude empatizar con Sylvia M y su necesidad de acudir a 'la escritura como refugio'. Leer esos fragmentos de página en página y acompañarla en ese transitar sobre la memoria y la des-memoria de su amiga fue como sentir querer abrazarla y decirle no estás sola, te leo, te acompaño, estoy aquí.-

El Alzheimer crea sombras.
El Alzheimer desdibuja los recuerdos, que triste es.-

"No puedo acostumbrarme a no decir 'te acordás' porque intento mantener, en esos pedacitos de pasado compartido, los lazos cómplices que me unen a ella. Y porque para mantener una conversación -para mantener una relación- es necesario hacer memorias juntas o jugar a hacerla, aun cuando ella -es decir, su memoria- ya ha dejado sola a la mía"

littoral's review

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4.0

In Silvia Molloy’s Dislocations, an unnamed narrator presents vignettes from the life of her friend M.L., who we quickly learn is afflicted with an unnamed condition (hinted to be Alzheimer’s) that affects her memory. Each vignette is well-observed in its own way, and the book only grows more rending as the reader’s deeper understanding of M.L. as the book goes on runs counterparallel to M.L.’s progressively worsening memory.

The brief book makes the most of each vignette, and the observations ring true - presenting the different facets of degenerative disease, the variability in the good days and the bad (3 sequential vignettes about a gift of alfajores are deceptively simple and true), the loss of the memory of not only events and facts but also of who you are, how to be. There is a lot packed into few words in exploring who defines our identity and our histories when our memories no longer supply these for ourselves. As literature, this is moving, thought-provoking. The cruel reality is that the affliction is substantially messier than the carefully crafted, even detached version presented here (something the narrator hints at), but this does not always make for good literature.

julsromay's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad

4.0

"para mantener una conversación -para mantener una relación- es necesario hacer memoria juntas o jagar a hacerla, aun cuando ella -es decr, su memoria- ya ha dejado sola a la mía."
m encanta esta escritota. Todo lo q trata es tan interesante y el cómo lo escribe tan bueno... aunq sea uno d mis top5 miedos (el desvanecimiento d una amistad). Doy gracias a q escriba en español porq temo q una traducción nunca llegaría al nivel d profundidad usando según q palabras. En definitiva la amo! leeré todo lo q caiga en mis manos d ella (y si no cvae nada lo haré caer)

manu_1231's review against another edition

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reflective

5.0

elfs29's review

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emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

Beautiful writing of the difficult and inconceivable time when a friend has lost their memory. It made me very scared of that happening to me or to my friends, and having to suffer what the author has, the intangible loss and hideous loneliness.

The ghastly originality of the disease, for me, is becoming a cliché, another mode, predictable now, of communication. I have eased into illness, as well, into its rhetoric; nothing surprises me anymore. This ought to be a consolation, probably, but for reason i find it alarming. Because I’ll no longer have anything to write about?

adam0k's review

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4.0

Transcendent, engaging, and smart. Wish it was longer!