TLDR/OPinion: 6/10
Hosseini's harrowing microcosmic tale of ​the wider degeneration of his native country, Afghanistan, tells the story of its oppression and corruption at the hands of other nations and terrorists groups from the unique perspective of 2 children. The book travels through history and across countries, a tale of betrayal, heartbreak, inequality and redemption.
Book Reviews and Analysis
Dubliners (1914)
Author
James Joyce
Score
4/10
Image by Gabriel Ramos
Dubliners (1914)
BLURB:
Collection of short naturalistic stories depicted in middle class in Dublin. Pervading this collection of short stories is a certain bathetic note, underwhelming each tale's conclusion often with an incongruous or dissatisfying emotion describing the protagonist's divergence from a conventional or emphatic denouement. Explores issues of identity and purpose often leading to the character's incongruous epiphany, at odds with the original trajectory of the story.
REVIEW:
For someone who likes the cliché happy endings these stories perhaps are not up your alley; James Joyce, whilst ingeniously exploring the catharsis of epiphany and the inversion of concepts such as class and identity entrenched within the milieu, diverges from the tri-fold format of a satisfying fable (exposition/climax/denouement) and rather dangles the reader off the precipice of 'what happens next?' - perhaps a crafty technique to involve the reader in some personal introspective thought though.
THEMES:
Stream of Consciousness
Bathos
Revelations/Epiphany
Class Division
Power vs. Powerlessness
Nihilism