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La Trama Del Matrimonio (2011)

by Jeffrey Eugenides(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8804613580 (ISBN13: 9788804613589)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mondadori

review 1: Truly an outstanding book. I am reminded of Franzen and Foster Wallace. This is a book clearly written by an author who knows literature and history, and works it in, but, unlike David Foster Wallace, does not make the reader feel stupid, with half the references are going over his or her head. The plot is simple. But the characters are real---in fact almost too real. I see myself (as Mitchell, in case you are wondering) and others I know as characters in the book. In particular, the depiction of bipolar is perhaps as real as I have seen in any fiction work. It is a rare book that combines sophistication with an entertaining read. I loved it.
review 2: For the first quarter of the book it seems as if Eugenides is asking--now that sex need not lead to... more marriage and the unhappily married can always divorce--how it might be possible to renovate the classic nineteenth-century 'marriage plot' for a more knowing or more hip age. He returns sweetly to this question right at the conclusion of the book. But its main subject is something different--a scientifically-informed but compassionately humanistic portrayal of bipolarity. The setting, in the early 80s of Eugenides' own college year, is almost that of a historical novel in that Leonard, the sufferer, brilliant but vulnerable to grandiosity, is described as a 'manic depressive'. Taking it upon himself to alter his own dosages of lithium, he cuts up his tablets with an X-Acto knife, returning to life and mental sharpness but jeopardising his relationship. The weakness of the novel is that the indirect free style sections from the two male viewpoints are too much alike. Its strength is its compassion and occasional fineness of imagination, especially in projecting the effects of Leonard's acrimonious, loveless childhood. less

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bayshae

In the end, I just didn't care about the characters or what they were doing. Eugenides writes beautiful prose at times, which kept me going, but I was so indifferent to Maddy, Mitchell, and Leonard that it didn't matter. The first 2/3 are definitely "about books", that is, a lot of the writing is about what the characters are reading and the feeling they get from those books. I'm a sucker for that, and usually end up picking up books like it, then being disappointed. True in this case as well. I can't help but think that a book describing the joy of reading other books is somehow lesser than those books from which joy is derived. It's almost like a book report, and it smacks of laziness. Will I read more Eugenides? Probably. But will I re-read this? Probably not.

Maybell

This is a terrific book that made me believe in novels again. It’s funny how this book feels at once thick and thin on ideas, but it doesn’t matter. It is my kind of a literary page turner. I love the overall worldview of the writer, who loves ideas but not ideologies, and has true compassion for his characters. I am really a humanist and so Eugenides seems to be both in his work and when I saw him speak in person in Melbourne. And humanists are often dead-funny, as he is. There is so much natural, quiet wit in his sentences.

Arden

Cute book. Well written, but the characters were a bit irritating.

titaisawesome

meh meh meh meh meh. ending felt pretty inevitable.

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