[Book 4] Page
Jul. 29th, 2005 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chenanceouComment Je Suis Devenu Stupide by Martin Page
The translation for the title would be How I Became Stupid (my French badly needed the exercise) and I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's quite French (what that means to me may not be what it means to you) in its commentary on life as we know it and does its job with spirit and intelligence (I almost feel like apologising for using the word). Still, I'm conflicted. You see, I understand Antoine (the one trying to tell you how he became stupid) all too well and I guess that was the problem. The hit was too close to home.
The book itself is what a book would like to be: entertaining, sharp (I so want to say intelligent again) and giggles funny. Fine, maybe not all books aspire to those epithets, but I'm confident this one was aiming in that general direction.
Anyway, like the girl said: it's not the book, it's (probably) me.
The translation for the title would be How I Became Stupid (my French badly needed the exercise) and I'm not sure how I feel about it. It's quite French (what that means to me may not be what it means to you) in its commentary on life as we know it and does its job with spirit and intelligence (I almost feel like apologising for using the word). Still, I'm conflicted. You see, I understand Antoine (the one trying to tell you how he became stupid) all too well and I guess that was the problem. The hit was too close to home.
The book itself is what a book would like to be: entertaining, sharp (I so want to say intelligent again) and giggles funny. Fine, maybe not all books aspire to those epithets, but I'm confident this one was aiming in that general direction.
Anyway, like the girl said: it's not the book, it's (probably) me.
