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noel_rene_cisneros's review against another edition
4.0
¿Es posible sacar una verdad de la memoria? Siri Hustvedt se plantea esa pregunta y para contestarla construye esta novela que recrea uno de sus años de juventud, la etapa de formación en la que se dedicó a escribir y a leer en su primer año en Nueva York. Del otoño de 1978 al verano de 1979 se vuelve a encontrar con ella, vía a un diario que tuvo en ese período, reflexionando en torno a los vericuetos de la memoria, la situación de la mujer (la violencia a la que su personaje, ella de joven, afrontaba).
alicia_sg's review against another edition
4.0
Es absurdo que me ponga yo ahora a legitimar a Siri Hustvedt . La manera que tiene de narrar y mezclar los tiempos , los estados emocionales y la creación artística en su obra hace que te enganches de principio a fin. Un libro muy interesante con muchas lecturas.
anniebh's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
laurapoulosky's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars rounded up. I found the narrator's introspective, analytical, philosophical voice interesting and I appreciated her feminist observations. The non-linear bouncing between the mature author's thoughts and various episodes in her past wasn't too hard to follow.
juli_mod's review against another edition
2.0
Ich liebe Siri Hustvedt sehr! Aber dieses Buch war langatmig, langweilig, konfus. Schade, ich mag die Idee des Porträts einer Künstlerin als junge Frau. Aber die minutiöse Wiedergabe von Gesprächen, die diese Frau erlebt, in Tagebuchform war kaum auszuhalten. Ich habe mich immer wieder dabei erwischt wie ich anfing, über die Zeilen zu fliegen, dem Drang folgend Seiten zu überspringen. Der Hauptplot um die Nachbarin war fade Weitschweifigkeit. Die junge Frau selbst bleibt weitestgehend unterkomplex obwohl wir jede Menge Kontext und Plottwists über sie geliefert bekommen.
Was mir gut gefiel war das Buch im Buch an dem die Junge Frau schreibt, doch zu wenig davon!!
„Damals“ war eine eher quälende Lektüre, bei der ich nur weitergelesen habe in der Hoffnung, dass der Funke irgendwann überspringt und das Hustvedt-Erzählfeuer sich entzündet.
Was mir gut gefiel war das Buch im Buch an dem die Junge Frau schreibt, doch zu wenig davon!!
„Damals“ war eine eher quälende Lektüre, bei der ich nur weitergelesen habe in der Hoffnung, dass der Funke irgendwann überspringt und das Hustvedt-Erzählfeuer sich entzündet.
noel_rene_cisneros's review against another edition
4.0
¿Es posible sacar una verdad de la memoria? Siri Hustvedt se plantea esa pregunta y para contestarla construye esta novela que recrea uno de sus años de juventud, la etapa de formación en la que se dedicó a escribir y a leer en su primer año en Nueva York. Del otoño de 1978 al verano de 1979 se vuelve a encontrar con ella, vía a un diario que tuvo en ese período, reflexionando en torno a los vericuetos de la memoria, la situación de la mujer (la violencia a la que su personaje, ella de joven, afrontaba).
caislekyle's review against another edition
2.0
i really wanted to like it bc stupid 23 y/o failed writer is so me core but the whole thing felt like a slog
candacesiegle_greedyreader's review against another edition
2.0
I'm giving "Memories of the Future" three stars and I'm not sure why--I was not able to plow through it. Maybe because of the writing, which is wonderful, but the plot? I could not stick with it. "The Blazing World" was glorious, but this is a disappointment.
It sounds so appealing--a complex plot mixing past and present presented through the discovery of a notebook the writer, called "Minnesota" here, wrote about her first years in New York City. Who doesn't love that "young person in the big new city" trope? But everything is so disjointed, and her growing obsession with her downstairs neighbor Lucy . . . I couldn't hang with it.
I'm giving this novel 2.5 stars because someday I may go back to it. There's that something about it that can't be explained. I still think about this novel but am not ready to more spend time in that cramped apartment in the 1970s with that girl from Minnesota.
It sounds so appealing--a complex plot mixing past and present presented through the discovery of a notebook the writer, called "Minnesota" here, wrote about her first years in New York City. Who doesn't love that "young person in the big new city" trope? But everything is so disjointed, and her growing obsession with her downstairs neighbor Lucy . . . I couldn't hang with it.
I'm giving this novel 2.5 stars because someday I may go back to it. There's that something about it that can't be explained. I still think about this novel but am not ready to more spend time in that cramped apartment in the 1970s with that girl from Minnesota.