lavellan

i like kristeva’s theories simply because they don’t make me want to claw my eyes out while reading it. yes foucault i’m looking at you.

was bored out of my mind again.

Actual rating: 3.5

I love my wangxian

The core of this book is trying to find answers to the questions ‘who am i’ and “who are we as a nation” yet I’ve found it falling quite flat after reading Veba Geceleri and Beyaz Kale from Pamuk. Those, in my opinion, are better books of his, but even in Veba Geceleri he starts to spiral and repeat himself so much that the plot was lost to me. I understand that this book is about the endless research of identity in a lot of ways, but the deliverence was weak to me. Is the prose good? Yeah. Is the concept good? Sure. Are there anything else special? No. Honestly his male characters are starting to blend in my mind and his representation of woman only as bedmates or housewives bores me.