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erotic and disorienting in the best way aka marguerite duras
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The Ravishing of Lol Stein
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Lol Stein's comfortable married life is disrupted when she returns to her hometown and recalls how she was abandoned by a former fiance.
181 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1964
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181 pages, Paperback
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March 12, 1986 by Pantheon
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English
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Tatiana Karl
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Jacques Hold
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Depois de perceber que o livro retrata um tipo de psicose (conscientemente ou não por parte da autora), no feminino, portanto muito sensual e arrebatador, tudo faz sentido. Fascinante talento! Não à toa, o próprio Lacan lhe fez uma vénia!
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Marguerite Duras malaisante prend la tête à tout le monde avec son livre de merde
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die group read.
Reading this one for a group read. Why? I like torture? I don't know folks... yeah it's kinda dreamy and poetic, stream-of-consciousness writing... but it's boring. Does anything happen, I mean HAPPEN to these people? lol Ok... I'm going to finish it because I'm half-way through and it reads fast... but I'm yawning folks. Plus, I find I'm flipping back and forth trying to figure out who's saying what. Maybe something got lost in the translation, which is sadly so often true.
Well... I finished the book. I can't say it really was a book I had to read before I died. Wonder why they call it the "ravishing" of Lol Stein. Not much ravishing going on with all the clandestine sex going on. lol
Reading this one for a group read. Why? I like torture? I don't know folks... yeah it's kinda dreamy and poetic, stream-of-consciousness writing... but it's boring. Does anything happen, I mean HAPPEN to these people? lol Ok... I'm going to finish it because I'm half-way through and it reads fast... but I'm yawning folks. Plus, I find I'm flipping back and forth trying to figure out who's saying what. Maybe something got lost in the translation, which is sadly so often true.
Well... I finished the book. I can't say it really was a book I had to read before I died. Wonder why they call it the "ravishing" of Lol Stein. Not much ravishing going on with all the clandestine sex going on. lol
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such disparity in duras’s writing.
the past century erotica about orchestrating and experiencing an affair from the outside is fun.
though the Pride and Prejudice focus on relationships with women being hysterical and men simple adds to the fantasy, it’s grating. the whole thing is hysterical. like the crying and laughing in The North China Lover. duras uses that hysteria. it’s excessive here.
and there’s a Three Women exploration of identity.
while the narrative perspective switches have something to do with the identity theme, it’s unpleasant. especially when the third-person makes its way into dialogue.
lol is a good character. there’s appeal in the way being stuck manifests in her. that can be found in anything else duras has written. this is my least favorite of her novellas. of the six that i’ve read so far.
2 1/2 stars
the past century erotica about orchestrating and experiencing an affair from the outside is fun.
though the Pride and Prejudice focus on relationships with women being hysterical and men simple adds to the fantasy, it’s grating. the whole thing is hysterical. like the crying and laughing in The North China Lover. duras uses that hysteria. it’s excessive here.
and there’s a Three Women exploration of identity.
while the narrative perspective switches have something to do with the identity theme, it’s unpleasant. especially when the third-person makes its way into dialogue.
lol is a good character. there’s appeal in the way being stuck manifests in her. that can be found in anything else duras has written. this is my least favorite of her novellas. of the six that i’ve read so far.
2 1/2 stars
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No, it's not really one of the greatest novels ever written in any objective way, but I'm such a fan of the French nouveau roman I can't help but give this lovely little tome five stars. I loved everything about The Ravishing of Lol Stein--the mysterious narrator, the non-place and mix of cultural origins to the names of the fugitive characters, the convoluted story told almost entirely through impressions and emotions, the inner reality that trumps all sense of any outer objective realism, the inconclusive ending, the smell of the mellowing, cheap paper of a Grove Press hardcover from a 1980s remainder bin. I remember so vividly falling in love with the novels of Blanchot, Duras, Beckett, Sarraute, Philippe Sollers, and Robbe-Grillet in college, how they set me to writing with increased fervor searching to say what had never been said before in new, unthought forms of narrative. Reading this was like hearing an LP I never heard before from a band I loved back in the 1980s.
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"Penso que, apesar de Marguerite Duras me fazer saber por sua própria boca que não sabe, em toda sua obra, de onde lhe veio Lol, e mesmo que eu pudesse vislumbrar, pelo que ela me diz, a frase posterior, a única vantagem que um psicanalista tem o direito de tirar de sua posição, sendo-lhe esta reconhecida como tal, é a de lembrar, com Freud, que em sua matéria o artista sempre o precede e, portanto, ele não tem que bancar o psicólogo quando o artista lhe desbrava o caminho.
Foi precisamente isso que reconheci no arrebatamento de Lol V. Stein, onde Marguerite Duras revela saber sem mim aquilo que ensino"
Homenagem a Marguerite Duras pelo arrebatamento de Lol V. Stein por Jacques Lacan em Outros Escritos
Foi precisamente isso que reconheci no arrebatamento de Lol V. Stein, onde Marguerite Duras revela saber sem mim aquilo que ensino"
Homenagem a Marguerite Duras pelo arrebatamento de Lol V. Stein por Jacques Lacan em Outros Escritos
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