Adele

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This book is written in an amazing, fast pace, and you will never notice how you have scrolled through the pages and hours have passed. A quick read but an exhilarating one written in pared back prose: transgressive, subversive, likely to divide readers, and yes, enigmatic and provocative rather than transparent. One final, luxurious week and she can leave the dangerous, difficult escort world, because Dora has fallen in love and is ready to embrace a better future.

I guess you could say it’s sort of making the point that women are objectified but that’s hardly a new idea and very banal. Her life is preoccupied with dozens of affairs and one-night stands and then the two halves of her life collide and it becomes impossible for her to continue as she has been doing.The way she treats her husband, her son and her few friends is appalling, and Slimani builds up these details with the relentless concentration of someone working a razorblade under your toenail.

gal čia tas romane 100 proc dominuojantis veiksmažodžių esamasis laikas - kad mes visada esam su Adele, matom jos akimis, net biški pajaučiam jos juslėmis (ugh), kaip kad būna visokiuose įtampos žanruose - siaubiake, pornuškėj - bet ta įtampa yra tiesiog buvimo įtampa, gyvenimo, ieškojimo, kaip būti su savo kūnu ir kas jis yra. Meanwhile, Yaseer, a prominent surgeon from the vibrant Las Vegas, grapples with the challenge of salvaging his deteriorating marriage. As the author acknowledges she experiences French society entirely different and far more open and relaxed on sexuality, I am not entirely convinced by what to me comes across as an hineininterpretierung of her own novel, as her protagonist is not Moroccan and seems to live an all but subdued life (at least if marriage and motherhood aren’t synonymous with oppression in Slimani’s view). Adèle has been good,” the opening proclaims, but now “she wants to be devoured, sucked, swallowed whole. However, the repeated inclusion of Adele's song lyrics in each chapter, while initially intriguing, eventually grew somewhat wearisome.Unlike Emma, Adèle does not covet romantic fulfilment – the reverse – but she is similarly driven by restlessness and a rejection of the snares of bourgeois propriety; and similarly doomed by the absence of a space for her in the social structure (on which note, there is also an allusion to Anna Karenina’s suicide). So this short novel is slightly flawed, but hey, this was Slimani's debut, and she was certainly not playing it safe, and I appreciate that.

I understood her addiction well enough, but found Adèle as a person so blank I could neither sympathise with nor despise her.That Adèle’s husband is a doctor is suggestive of the world of Madame Bovary, with which the novel appears to be in dialogue.