La mujer que llora: Premio Azorín 2013 (Spanish Edition)
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Passion can be written quite seductively but not like this. Of course, this was sex involving Picasso so possibly there was no other way to write it. The book reinforced my opinion of Picasso as a cruel madman but I expected to have more sympathy for Dora.
I'd like to read this book on Kindle Don't have a Kindle? She has written about the bias that she has observed in the publishing industry which has been dominated by men who have chosen books by men for a male audience. Chapters later it would be mentioned again and yet again chapters later. Jul 30, Craig Masten rated it it was ok. With Dora herself, I just couldn't take an a badly treated, basically abused woman, go on and on about how the only thing of value in her life is the genius Picasso who neglected and discarded her. But this book did not hold my interest at all nor did I care about any of these shallow people.
This book was given to me by the publisher through Edelweiss in return for an honest review. May 15, Patricia rated it it was amazing Shelves: I'm trying to think of a way to express why I fell deeply in love with this novel. I think it boils down to this: It also made me to start it again the second I'd finished it. Pese a que el tema me fascinaba y me sigue fascinando: Tampoco el estilo de esta autora me ha enganchado, es la primera obra que leo de ella pero no me han quedado ganas de repetir.
This book tells a story about a magnificant woman, and a great artist -Dora Maar. Its told from different points of view, different characters tell their story from other time periods. So we travel from Jul 03, Armando Lucas Correa rated it it was amazing. One of her best novels. Una historia apasionante escrita por la mejor novelista cubana.
Jan 30, Dianne Landry rated it did not like it. I picked this book up because I thought the story of real life Picasso muse, Dora Maar, who shut herself away from the world after a five or eight day trip to Venice with two of his admirers sounded interesting. Boy was I wrong. The writing is so overly flowery and descriptive it had me yawning at chapter 2.
The skipping back and forth between the modern writer's view and Dora's was not well done. It was sometimes hard to tell who was writing which chapter. I got so bored that by page 75 I kne I picked this book up because I thought the story of real life Picasso muse, Dora Maar, who shut herself away from the world after a five or eight day trip to Venice with two of his admirers sounded interesting.
I got so bored that by page 75 I knew it was going back to the library, and it did. Aug 17, Cristina rated it did not like it Shelves: I purchased this ebook, as it was on sale. It definitely must not be one of her best works. I did not enjoy it one bit, except for the moments I felt compelled to look up art works and other references throughout the first chapter. Besides that, the novel does not employ any interesting narrative techniques at least that I can identify in this translation that make me feel that the Valdes is attempting to engage her readers in interesting ways.
Apr 10, Sue Keeble rated it it was ok.
Gave up on this half way through. Somewhat held by the grim torture of this fictionalised account of obsession and idolisation of Picasso. Seriously repetitive though - just how many ways can you describe sadistic relationships and an ultimate failure to connect? On the positive side a great warning to brilliant women everywhere to fulfil their own dreams.
Terrible accounts of possession by Picasso. Sep 27, Pat rated it did not like it. The only positive I can take from this book is that I learned something about Picasso, Dora Maar and the artists of their era. But it also made me hate them all personally,. Dec 29, Joe Cummings rated it really liked it. To be reviewed later. Tanto talento y tanta congoja. Mar 03, Judith Works rated it liked it. I had a hard time with this book. It is a convoluted story about a woman's search for the meaning of a missing period in Dora Maar's unhappy relationship with Picasso after he dumped her in favor of the next woman.
Might be very interesting to those who are fascinated with the painter and his fraught relations with mistresses and wives.
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Jul 30, Craig Masten rated it it was ok. Weeping Woman by Zoe Valdez is a novel utilizing a modernist writing style, a dreamy disconnected or too intricately connected segments of interwoven narrative, past and present imagined happenings of the author herself projected into her novel alongside Picasso and his mistress Dora Maar. And many of those persons who were a part in theme or lives.
I dead having to attempt unraveling such tangled skeins of queried narrative. The author also I believe takes creative liberties portraying the known personas of the real people in her book, having them think and say and do things which don't jibe with evidence in the historical record. I read historical fiction to have the past fleshed out for me, to breathe life into the past to allow me to somehow vicariously be there, but a novelist's inventions which distort or contradict an established historical record serve to confuse a reader about what was real, insomuch as that is ever possible to achieve.
There are interesting nuggets of information and lovely pieces of writing to be had, but also tedious stretches of repetitious musings and conversations between the author and her friends and family that Ed me to that least of all satisfying way of reading: He life of Dora Maar is an intriguing mystery that invites interest, although her professed wish for no one to write about her gains some legitimacy for me in this novel which plays too imaginatively loose and free with what she wanted to be and remains private and unknown. Let me imagine Dora Maar would be horrified by the portrayals, and even though in the end the target clearly is a vicious attack on the character and image of Picasso, with sympathy for how he mistreated her and others.
Picasso is certainly deserving of much much criticism as a man, but here again, I think he is better judged by his own words and deeds than the novelist's flamboyant inventions. These are my cautionary impressions if you enter this confounding whirlpool of a book. This author obviously felt a near obsessive love for her weeping woman, but I don't believe Dora Maar would have welcomed such attentions as Ms.
Always emotionally autobiographical, she manages to weave in her personal leitmotifs of exile, anger at injustice, the hypocrisy of the government of her country Many times harrowing, but thankfully going back into a lull between the literary crescendos, her style is an acquired taste. An emotional intense female Cuban exile writer, now living in Paris, always with an emotional axe to grind, she's a roller coaster ride. Be prepared for long run on sentences, another Proustian trait she emulates. I read her in Spanish this is my third book of hers that I read , what do the French and English translators make of some of her adjectives?
Sometimes displaying a monstrous virtuosity, she might drive you crazy Apr 30, Jacob rated it it was ok Shelves: I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. A difficult time jumping narrative concerned with a Cuban writer trying to unbury the events of Dora Maar's, Picasso's lover and surrealist artist, 5 day or 8 including travel trip to Venice.
It was after this trip Maar became a recluse, remaining in her apartment with her Picassos. The narrative shifts from the s to the late s and even the s without it always being clear when the narrative is. The aforementioned writer is a I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. The aforementioned writer is a fictionalized version of the author, Zoe Valdes. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase.
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