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Purity
Purity� s stories take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern a man has a breakdown on a bus; a fugitive gains insight from a color wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief proclaims his innocence. And cleaners reluctantly clean up.
With weight as well as humor, people are depicted as fallen, in the process of falling or waiting to fall, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, rendered by Tichý with the fury of Thomas Bernhard.
With weight as well as humor, people are depicted as fallen, in the process of falling or waiting to fall, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, rendered by Tichý with the fury of Thomas Bernhard.
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124 pages, Paperback
Published June 4, 2024
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November 12, 2024
2 1/2*
Ummm yeah okay, the first few stories were snappy and engaging. I’m not used to the language style so it really took me off guard! However, the latter half of the book completely lost me �. Like okay??
Ummm yeah okay, the first few stories were snappy and engaging. I’m not used to the language style so it really took me off guard! However, the latter half of the book completely lost me �. Like okay??
September 12, 2024
A very brutal collage of immigrant experience in Sweden.
I think perhaps there may have been elements lost on me due to my neither being Swedish, nor having emigrated there, as much as I might like to.
The brutal style is arresting, at times a little overwhelming, but quite refreshing all the same, as I have been reading modern classics and books about Japanese people that give up on life and open a book store.
Life is brutal, and I enjoyed the perspective. Came away better for the experience.
I think perhaps there may have been elements lost on me due to my neither being Swedish, nor having emigrated there, as much as I might like to.
The brutal style is arresting, at times a little overwhelming, but quite refreshing all the same, as I have been reading modern classics and books about Japanese people that give up on life and open a book store.
Life is brutal, and I enjoyed the perspective. Came away better for the experience.
March 31, 2025
An example of Brodenism.
June 23, 2024
Near-perfect, honest but unmeandering stream-of-consciousness, like peeking through a crack in the door to watch somebody pull out their hair, confront their realities, mostly their traumas, or the folds of a complicated question; if Impressionism was not already a literary term (excuse my ignorance) then it is now.
September 19, 2024
A collection of short stories with the themes of immigration, class and racism in Sweden.
Visceral, violent, razor-sharp.
The chapter 'Purity' is a collection of different cleaners' living experiences, worries and problems.
Visceral, violent, razor-sharp.
The chapter 'Purity' is a collection of different cleaners' living experiences, worries and problems.
December 7, 2024
Stories of characters living hard chaotic lives on the edges of modern European society, buffeted by politics, with the ever-present threat of violence. Glimmers of lucidity, poetry and humour amongst the pain.
March 10, 2024
Not really my thing, but there were some nice phrases and the last story was pretty good. 2.5.
June 26, 2024
Not rly sure how to feel abt this one� very interesting and well-written but sort of difficult to get into
August 13, 2024
There are a lot of passages in this book where I think the writing and translation was really good but the lack of cohesion made it hard to build momenutum
October 3, 2024
Simply original.
December 18, 2024
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