After reading the essay by Adam Kirsch about Yoel Hoffmanns and his different books, I am intrigued and excited to begin reading Moods and see what kind of writing style Hoffmann has. It seems like it is going to be something like poetry but not exactly, but different than any story I have read before and I like poetry and short stories so I'm interested to see what the story is about and the difference in writing styles. In the first sentence of the essay Kirsch states
In Moods, Hoffmann spoofs the kind of
conventional realism he imagines the
reader is used to. “Maybe we’ll write…a
contemporary story,” he teases, and offers
a paragraph about a woman named Zivit,
who wakes up in the morning, sees her
lover in bed next to her, wonders about
their future together—the familiar motions
of storytelling. “Some of our readers are
no doubt saying to themselves: At last, a
real story,” he writes, but the story breaks
off and Hoffmann hasn’t the slightest
interest in continuing it .
I believe this is something that might bother some people, a style of writing that doesn't exactly finish every thought and every story, but I am excited to see what it is gonna be about and how this book will turn out and how I will understand it. It is definitely not like anything I have read before, the fragmented poem like paragraphs that are numbered, but I'm open to interpretation and imagination and looking forward to reading the book.
Good response, Catherine. I think that Hoffmann is very different, but he's accessible. As long as you approach w/ an open mind, you should be fine!
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