Sign in with Facebook
Adina (way behind)'s Reviews > The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe
by
by
Update 2022: While reading Zambra’s “Not to Read” I stumbled over a quote from this novel. I thought I should put it here:
‘It doesn’t hurt to remember, by the way, the passage in The Tartar Steppe when, with tepid good judgement, Giovanni Drogo intuits his fate: ‘It is difficult to believe in a thing when one is alone and there is no one to speak to. It was at this period that Drogo realized how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain, and that brings about life’s loneliness.’
Previous comments: The most haunting metaphor of life and death that I've ever read. It is an incredible book but it leaves you spent, desolated at the end of it, like the tartar steppe.
‘It doesn’t hurt to remember, by the way, the passage in The Tartar Steppe when, with tepid good judgement, Giovanni Drogo intuits his fate: ‘It is difficult to believe in a thing when one is alone and there is no one to speak to. It was at this period that Drogo realized how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain, and that brings about life’s loneliness.’
Previous comments: The most haunting metaphor of life and death that I've ever read. It is an incredible book but it leaves you spent, desolated at the end of it, like the tartar steppe.
Sign into Goodreads to see if any of your friends have read
The Tartar Steppe.
Sign In »
Reading Progress
Comments Showing 1-10 of 10 (10 new)
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Ladan
(new)
-
rated it 5 stars
Sep 24, 2019 03:33AM
I'm on page 93 and I can say this book is a jaw-dropper. have u watched the movie too?
reply
|
flag
Ladan wrote: "I'm on page 93 and I can say this book is a jaw-dropper. have u watched the movie too?" It is. I did not know there is a movie, I do not think it is easy to make a movie after this book. I will check it out
I've heard of this author but somehow I've never got around to including him in my to read list. Do you think there are similarities between this book and kafka´s as the official description seems to suggest?
That is an incredibly painful, yet true, statement. I want and need and suffer alone.
Gabriel wrote: "I've heard of this author but somehow I've never got around to including him in my to read list. Do you think there are similarities between this book and kafka´s as the official description seems ..." Yes, they are. The constant waitign for something to happen, for the tartars to invade has a Kafkaesque dimension.
Gena wrote: "That is an incredibly painful, yet true, statement. I want and need and suffer alone." All this book is painful and has many truth in it.
This was a sleeper, and there's nothing I like better from a book than unexpected delights.
Ken wrote: "This was a sleeper, and there's nothing I like better from a book than unexpected delights." Exactly, if one has the patience.
Wow! Amazing thought! Thanks for sharing!
Christina wrote: "Wow! Amazing thought! Thanks for sharing!" Thank you Christina
