ilchinealach reviewed The leavetaking. by Peter Weiss
Review of 'The leavetaking.' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
came into this expecting something very different than what it was, being more familiar with the relentless objectivity of the aesthetics of resistance, new trial, marat / sade than weiss' other prose works. this is more in a thomas bernhard vein i.e., unfolds like a thinly fictionalised autobiographical rant, full of sexual neuroses and childhood traumas. its formally flawless, but the confessional aspects put me off
came into this expecting something very different than what it was, being more familiar with the relentless objectivity of the aesthetics of resistance, new trial, marat / sade than weiss' other prose works. this is more in a thomas bernhard vein i.e., unfolds like a thinly fictionalised autobiographical rant, full of sexual neuroses and childhood traumas. its formally flawless, but the confessional aspects put me off