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A review by amelielucy
Mona by Pola Oloixarac
4.0
This book is fucking hilarious and smart, I love it!
I found it hard to get into at first because it gets really wordy whenever one of the writer characters in the book delivers their speeches (and I’ll admit I’m not smart enough for most of them) but it’s so interesting. And to see what they choose to reveal to the bigger writing world and in private was also extremely interesting.
You go through pages of really well written philosophical takes on translation, culture, language, politics etc. and then as a reward you get the strangest, cuntiest interactions from Mona. For example one of my favourite lines:
“Her feminist values weren’t located in her brain stem, so she never experienced any visceral reactions in their name-but she couldn’t stand to be in the same place as that Beckettian cock for a second longer.’
I think it’s just iconic that Oloixarac can shift from such smart observations to using hashtags ironically and describing sex in the most grotesquely weird way I’ve seen in a while. Very strange, almost magical at times but mostly just really clever. Excited to reread this in the future when I might understand the literary references a bit more.
I found it hard to get into at first because it gets really wordy whenever one of the writer characters in the book delivers their speeches (and I’ll admit I’m not smart enough for most of them) but it’s so interesting. And to see what they choose to reveal to the bigger writing world and in private was also extremely interesting.
You go through pages of really well written philosophical takes on translation, culture, language, politics etc. and then as a reward you get the strangest, cuntiest interactions from Mona. For example one of my favourite lines:
“Her feminist values weren’t located in her brain stem, so she never experienced any visceral reactions in their name-but she couldn’t stand to be in the same place as that Beckettian cock for a second longer.’
I think it’s just iconic that Oloixarac can shift from such smart observations to using hashtags ironically and describing sex in the most grotesquely weird way I’ve seen in a while. Very strange, almost magical at times but mostly just really clever. Excited to reread this in the future when I might understand the literary references a bit more.