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Seven Years (1998)

by Peter Stamm(Favorite Author)
3.4 of 5 Votes: 4
ISBN
1590513940 (ISBN13: 9781590513941)
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English
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Other Press
review 1: This is the sort of novel I'm usually grabbed by, a novel that combines intellectual conversation with an obsessive relationship. I made it almost halfway through the novel, and despite good writing and Hofmann's excellent translation into English, I was drawn neither to the intellectual conversation nor to the obsessive (partly because so cruel) relationship. Nor to the narrator. Is having someone who is so little formed (due primarily to youth) really a good idea? It’s a bildungsroman novel without the bildung (or maybe it will come . . .). I’m not crazy about bildungsromans anyway, at least not the last twenty-some years.
review 2: Dreamy, strangely compelling story of one man's marriage and long standing affair. Echoes of Kundera, and a bit of a self co
... morenscious literary slant (no quotation marks in the speech, for example, everyone's an architect or an artist, it's all a little bit too hip to be really as piercing as it might have been). Overall, though, unsettling, fascinating hints at what drives us as people and in relationships. And some interesting - if slight - thoughts on architecture, too. less
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lassie
oh lordy, the narrator is a pretty vile man, but i really enjoyed this nonetheless.
lizziekaerocks77
Tiene cosas pero le sobran muchas.
Lindy
Writers and company interview...
Taytay
Captivant et ennuyeux
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