Tajemna historia
A Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary book. Death is the mother of beauty, said Henry. And what is beauty? Terror. Donna Tartt, The Secret History //
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- Pages: 656 pages
- ISBN: 9788372980281 / 8372980284
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It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Donna Tartt, The Secret History // What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is a very moving passage where Achilles overjoyed at the sight of the apparition tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining... Death is the mother of beauty, said Henry. And what is beauty? Terror. Donna Tartt, The Secret History //
This was one of those books that formed my everingrained inclinations toward the masterful dominions of novel writing-- I uphold the notion that it is above all other are forms. Yes, let me begin and say that I did not think this a masterpiece now, and before (c.a. 2001) I did. This was once, like, in my top ten !!! Tartt writes like... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Okay, so let me see if I understand what's going on in this book: These college kids accidentally murder someone while participating in some ancient ritual which involves some form of alternate consciousness. Then, they're shockingly ho-hum about the entire... The best word I can think of to describe this book is mesmerizing. You know from the very first page that the narrator and his friends will kill someone during the course of the story - you even know who the victim is and how he dies. But that didn't stop me from reading this book as fast as I could, trying to absorb every word. A truly...
