Sophie's Choice
The Holocaust becomes a breathtaking personal drama, in the midst of a vast cataclysm, in William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a big and questing novel with autobiographical elements and a fearless determination to explore a particular human dimension of a historical nightmare.
The Holocaust becomes a breathtaking personal drama, in the midst of a vast cataclysm, in William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a big and questing novel with autobiographical elements and a fearless determination to explore a particular human dimension of a historical nightmare.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781936317165 (1936317168)
Publish date: May 4th 2010
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages no: 560
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
War,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Fiction,
Historical
A very moving and intense story. Styron appears to break the rules (much like Elena Ferrante) in that he tells rather than shows. And parts of the story had a 'stream of consciousness' feel to it. But it all worked. It's not a light read, but quite dense. It's also not a novel that you can easily kn...
Well, I finished it. And I despised every moment of it, from the writing to the characters. Maybe I just don't understand or appreciate a writing style such as Styron's, but I just found it incredibly tedious and tiresome to wade through all of Stingo's incessant (and lust-fueled) rambling. I hat...
Sophie's choice is about a young writers initiation into sex, a doomed romance and the holocaust experience of a polish woman named Sophie. These three threads are woven together quite well. I found the writers story the least interesting and the most interesting is the holocaust part of the book,...
I got half, maybe two thirds of the way through this before I did what I really hate to do and gave up..I just couldn't be bothered.. I can't help thinking that if I had read this in my youth I would have found the tempestuous love affair between Nathan and Sophie highly romantic, and the constant s...
I got half, maybe two thirds of the way through this before I did what I really hate to do and gave up..I just couldn't be bothered.. I can't help thinking that if I had read this in my youth I would have found the tempestuous love affair between Nathan and Sophie highly romantic, and the constant s...
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