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Çaresizlik Kuyusu (2000)

by Lydia Millet(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Kolektif Kitap

review 1: I recently played a modern role playing game called Fiasco which is sort of an exercise in cooperative storytelling -- you invent characters and then choose relationships or objects or places that bind the characters and give them motivations. As you play the game, you iteratively invent a fiction about your characters. It's a fascinating exercise, but not something I'm super eager to do again. Anyway, this collection of stories feels like it was borne of a similar exercise. Choose a historical figure from a deck of cards. Choose an animal from another deck. Now choose an addiction or illness for the historical figure. Finally, pick an outsider and bind that person to the historical figure through some relationship with the animal. I'm oversimplifying it, but that'... mores the point -- my takeaway is that there was a sort of clever loose theme/formula that bound these stories, and that was interesting, but I really don't remember the stories. I remember Edison having a codeine addiction and bumming out over a (historically real) elephant that he executed. I'll have forgotten the stories entirely by this time next year.
review 2: - lead to many 'what ifs' which were quite comical - several blocks where the narrators' thoughts are very agreeable (Page 34 "it was a free afternoon...") and while at the same time quite obvious it's like Lydia Millet was able to put put together coherently the thoughts I've traversed upon many times(and therefore was familiar with) but never able to word properly- and perhaps because I didn't 'understand' the theme, devices, etc. but there's lots of room left for individual interpretations - hopefully that's what it was since I like to take stories and make sense of it in my own terms. Enjoyed it since it was quick, yet structured. But 3/5 because I did simply 'like it' nothing more, nothing less. :) less

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