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Informe Sobre Mí Mismo (2002)

by Grégoire Bouillier(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8495756080 (ISBN13: 9788495756084)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Zoela Ediciones

review 1: I've tried to avoid the whole memoir plague as much as possible, but I bought this book yesterday based on the reviews on the nytimes.com and bookslut.com. I finished it last night in one sitting. It's not deep reading to be sure, but I enjoyed its quirkiness in a sort of Portnoy's Complaint meets David Sedaris kind of way. Bouillier likes puns, many of which are based on sound, particularly homophony. Unfortunately what's amusing in french doesn't quite come off the page in english. Sad, because I like puns, too. 3.5 Stars?
review 2: I'm not a big memoir reader beyond the occasional dip into it through David Sedaris and others. I recognize its popularity as a genre in general, but also as a specific kind of creative nonfiction. With this comes several complic... moreations such as an insistence of it being completely true, as the sworn truth of a text separates it from a work of fiction. (Remember the James Frey explosion) I don’t particularly care about that, nor do I need to be told every moment of the author’s life, I assume Bouilier chose what to not include in this book, but also to retell it nonlinearly, which keeps the book from dragging. Just take the opening section that begins with “I had a happy childhood” only to immediately undercut with his Mom asking him and his brother “Children, do I love you?” before trying to jump out a window. This is the first of many disturbing moments in “Report on Myself.“ I am more interested in the basic elements of a narrative, interesting moments, people(characters), lines, thoughts. These are what pulled me through “Report on Myself” This is a challenging, thoughtful, and literate memoir. less

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