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Not since Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Ferdinand Bardamu has a character appeared in fiction with such a bitter, ironic, hysterically ranting voice. Tonka—a fifty-something woman spending the night watching TV before leaving her husband for a younger man—rails against all of society, from attacks on America to complaints about commercials, from the passive nature of most married women to the way corporations control the world.
With shocking honesty and anger, she pours out her soul to an imaginary audience, interspersing her rants with the story of her difficult life, the suffering experienced during the Yugoslav war, and the affairs she and her best friend have with the same man.
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Robert Dombrowsky
reviewed Night on February 03, 2020
Night
There is something to be said for the contrarian spirit in literature, but without context, lyricism or reason, it can become exploitive spite. This 200-page monolog was static, unjustifiable, vapid, in poor taste, without aesthetic merit, a series of unsubtle political statements without accompanying viewpoints, and a mean-spirited rant. For instance, if one is outraged at the presence of Serbs in Croatia, and one is going to tell the reader this on nearly every page, wouldn't it be prudent to provide a reason, even if that reason is personal and biased? Reasons might be discerned at a few key points, but not early on, when they would aid the American reader most.
If you enjoy unfiltered diaries with a hint of dark, crude humor this novel might click for you. I could attach hundreds of descriptors and epithets to this book, none of them flattering, but suffice it to say that it did not advocate itself as a worthy use of my time.
I read 64 pages and utilized speed-reading for the latter half.
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