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A review by towercity
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
5.0
Ok, so the review thing up there says, "What did you think?" Hold on, I'll take a picture:
See?
So what I should write in this review is what I thought of this book, right. Problem is, I don't know what to think. I was caught off guard with no clue what to think. Truly impenetrable, Dictee almost seems to be wholly against using language to communicate in the ways I'm used to. This of course is terribly disarming. I'm caught between complete confusion and a little unsettled. There is no comfort zone in this book. Yet, somehow, there is something of beauty in it. This is especially evident in the Erato Love Poetry section, which is the most normal (I think) part of the book. Images appear and fade away in ways you can't put your finger on, like in a silent movie. This is wonderful! Cha has created a mode of literature I've never seen before, and I think it works. I still don't know what to think. Maybe later I'll come back and fix this review. I don't know. Maybe the point of all this is that there is something entirely incommunicable at the center of Dictee. It cannot be explained, or reviewed. Whatever. ? stars
See?
So what I should write in this review is what I thought of this book, right. Problem is, I don't know what to think. I was caught off guard with no clue what to think. Truly impenetrable, Dictee almost seems to be wholly against using language to communicate in the ways I'm used to. This of course is terribly disarming. I'm caught between complete confusion and a little unsettled. There is no comfort zone in this book. Yet, somehow, there is something of beauty in it. This is especially evident in the Erato Love Poetry section, which is the most normal (I think) part of the book. Images appear and fade away in ways you can't put your finger on, like in a silent movie. This is wonderful! Cha has created a mode of literature I've never seen before, and I think it works. I still don't know what to think. Maybe later I'll come back and fix this review. I don't know. Maybe the point of all this is that there is something entirely incommunicable at the center of Dictee. It cannot be explained, or reviewed. Whatever. ? stars