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lizshayne 's review for:
When We Cease to Understand the World
by BenjamÃn Labatut
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Well I haven't had to haul out the old uncategorize-able tag in quite a while but here we are.
I still have no idea what that reading experience was. It was amazing and weird and thoughtful and...there was a lot going on there, but this space where both the science and the capacity to follow the narrative stopped making sense around the same time...
I don't know, I wish I could explain why I liked this book, beyond my deep fondness for stories of science and a sense of unmooredness that the narrative reflects very well.
Labatut understands narrative arc and somehow manages to end his stories without giving you closure. But he doesn't do it by just stopping before the ending; the arc itself is complete. It's the meaning-making that is so carefully held back.
I wish I had the courage to write that way more often.
I still have no idea what that reading experience was. It was amazing and weird and thoughtful and...there was a lot going on there, but this space where both the science and the capacity to follow the narrative stopped making sense around the same time...
I don't know, I wish I could explain why I liked this book, beyond my deep fondness for stories of science and a sense of unmooredness that the narrative reflects very well.
Labatut understands narrative arc and somehow manages to end his stories without giving you closure. But he doesn't do it by just stopping before the ending; the arc itself is complete. It's the meaning-making that is so carefully held back.
I wish I had the courage to write that way more often.