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Petra Hůlová

Autor(a) de All This Belongs to Me

11 Works 129 Membros 7 Reviews

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Obras de Petra Hůlová

All This Belongs to Me (2002) 80 cópias
Umělohmotný třípokoj (2013) 10 cópias
The Movement (2021) 10 cópias
Stanice tajga (2008) 7 cópias
Přes matný sklo (2004) 5 cópias
Cirkus Les Mémoires (2005) 4 cópias
Macocha (2014) 4 cópias
Čechy, země zaslíbená (2012) 2 cópias
Les Montagnes rouges (2005) 1 exemplar(es)

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So this is a glimpse of what happens in a fictional world where the feminist movement wins. Men are placed in reeducation facilities where they are trained/conditioned to value a woman for her inner qualities and not for their physical appearance. I found it disturbing honestly. Men are punished for having a physical reaction to a young beautiful woman and rewarded for being able to pleasure themselves to pictures of graying elderly women or simply older unattractive women. I agree that the portrayal of young beautiful women used to sell everything is wrong and should be changed I think this story takes it to the extreme. I felt sorry for the men in many of their situations. Disturbing yet somewhat timely.… (mais)
 
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Verkruissen | 1 outra resenha | Aug 17, 2021 |
I was initially quite intrigued by the premise of this book, but the more that I read, the more disappointed and tedious this book became. That might have to do with the main setting of the book, which takes place in one of the institutes where the narrator works. We’re told a little bit about what the rest of the world is like now that the Movement is in charge, but we are never given the chance to see this for ourselves. The one time the narrator leaves, it’s to travel to another institute. I also would have loved to learn more about Rita, the icon of the Movement. All of her history and rise to power is portrayed second hand.
The narrator describes her duties as an instructor, and some of her tasks are graphic depictions of sexual acts and body parts, which may bother sensitive readers.
I’m trying to understand what the author was going for, a straight dystopian tale or a satire. The narrator also tends to go off into an often unrelated philosophical discussion while talking about a topic or example (in the same sentence mind you),and I not only found it confusing, but it also made the book hard to read. I ended up having to re read sentences and whole paragraphs over and over again to try and gauge an ounce of meaning.
… (mais)
 
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brookiexlicious | 1 outra resenha | May 2, 2021 |
Three Plastic Rooms by Petra Hůlová is the story of an aging prostitute and her relationship with her own body, a novel rendered from Czech into hauntingly poetic English by Alex Zucker. Oh, my goodness. How can there exist a novel that is at once so open to beauty and yet in which every sentence is some new shocker? Here you go. This is that book. It’s the kind of book that nineteen out of twenty readers will say is too upsetting to love, or maybe even to finish, and the twentieth person will say "this book changed my life" or maybe: "this book convinces me that we are nowhere near the end as a species of exploring all the ways human language can be called upon to express new things."

As I write this, there has not been a single review of the novel on Amazon, which is surprising. It seems the book that would make people angry enough to write about it. Let’s see. It’s the kind of book that you can open on any page and be unbelievably disturbed. Let me try now:

the true mumsyfuckers have enough of that little drama at home, and the fuckshop, a quiet backwater of kissed knees, offers a gulf of solace, because what an orgasm means to these men’s wives was drilled into their heads by all those sex scene disasters you see at the multiplex, which whenever they happen my sticker-inner farts with laughter in my seat, and I would only be willing to moan during them, as I said, for the enjoyment of a man all my very own, so that sitting there in the seat next to me, in the dark, he would get an urge to stroke himself, or maybe just enjoy my sights, or maybe all of me, or, sigh, even love me.

I'm amazed this writing, for the way the harshness of the language resolves suddenly into vulnerability and poetry at the end of this paragraph...and also, damn, I'm amazed by translator Alex Zucker that he has done such an amazing job making this writing accessible to me.

Wonderful. Harsh and nearly unreadable at times but I'm so glad to have read it.
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poingu | Feb 22, 2020 |
This debut novel from a then 23-year old Czech writer, knocked my socks off. This is densely packed 200 page story of a family living as herders on the Mongolian steppes. The tale unfolds from the perspective of 5 women in the family. It is powerful, gut-wrenching, and heart-breaking, and ultimately about families, misunderstandings, belonging, and women's lives in an utterly backward corner of the globe.

The first half of the book is told from one sister's perspective and then pieces (sometimes missing pieces) are told from other women's perspectives. This was so powerful to see unfold--the damage done by without intention, the missed opportunities to connect and understand.

I thought the book cold use a bit more editing and the addition of a glossary for the Mongolian terms would have been helpful.

Highly recommended and good book club selection IMO.
… (mais)
½
 
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technodiabla | outras 3 resenhas | Dec 20, 2017 |

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Obras
11
Membros
129
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#156,299
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½ 3.7
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7
ISBNs
23
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