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I Melrose (2012)

by Edward St. Aubyn(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8854506583 (ISBN13: 9788854506589)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Neri Pozza

review 1: It's too bad Goodreads doesn't phrase it as "done reading" rather than "read." I didn't finish this, but I am sure done with it. I did get through the first novella, "Never Mind," about Patrick Melrose's horrific childhood. It's just 24 hours (or so) in the life, but man does it feel like longer. We have roughly 8 characters, ranging from useless to utterly monstrous. Edward St. Aubyn describes real misery but does so from such a distance, so coldly and journalistically, that I had a hard time caring. I felt like I was watching some Japanese movie depicting dozens of decapitations via a detailed array of swords, in which the filmmaker is much more interested in the blades than the heads. If you want reasons to loathe the English aristocracy (or you want to read party bante... morer about the state of philosophy-of-mind in 1965), by all means, jump in. But if you want a story with plot and characters, you might be disappointed.Maybe it's just the wrong book at the wrong time. So many people seem to love this writer. I may try again someday, but for now I gladly return it to the library.
review 2: Were I still a professor, I'd be teaching in context of Lacan, Althusser, and Kristeva. Doubtless already subject of many dissertations. I am so glad I am not a professor. This glistens and shudders, lightness and refraction, deliberate abjection and involuntary transcendence. Above all: it's a hell of a good read.There's an added bonus at the very end of the 4th book, for those who have been following the rainbow. less

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