Dale Schembri từ Brzustów, Poland

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12/22/2024

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2019-10-10 07:31

Mệnh Kỵ Sĩ - Tập 4 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngự Ngã

Three and a half. Went back and forth on this. The first three quarters are very strong, likely due to the willingness of interviewees to reminisce in great detail about the early years. As the book progresses and things get thornier, details get foggier. The last few chapters in particular were a disappointment; not that I needed razor-sharp ghoulish detail but it did seem as though suddenly Salamon's sources were close-lipped about the way things were sorted after Wendy's death. Also I was never entirely satisfied with the way Salamon dealt with the gaps between real life and the way Wendy wrote about her life in her many, many personal essays. Sometimes Salamon would quote from them or borrow details from them, taking them as fact; sometimes she'd call out specific details as false. Although this book wasn't a critical assessment of Wendy's work, I do feel as though not having a way to talk about this gap created a soft spot in the narrative. Same goes for the way Salamon treated the correlations between Wendy's plays and her real life. She'd refer to "the Wendy character" without even a blink, or a justification. While I do think it'd be hard to argue that Wendy's plays heavily borrow from her life, it's a mistake to discuss them as though they're just embellished diary entries. Again, a more thorough discussion of how and why Wendy used her life like this would have been interesting. Salamon floats a theory here and there, but I guess I feel as though in order to discuss this and discuss it well, we need a codex, a standard. But! I did mostly enjoy it. I liked reading excerpts from letters she wrote, those were very good. I was particularly excited to read about New York theater in the 1980s, a decade of theater history that I'm fairly soft on. And it was good to get some outside perspective on her. Reading her books and plays, you think you know! But of course you can't. And you don't. Also once I finished I went right out and bought a bunch of plays to read.

Người đọc Dale Schembri từ Brzustów, Poland

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.