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The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
Tue May 12, 2020 3:40 pm
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Tue May 12, 2020 6:15 pm
Simple Torture wrote:Joey, were you the one who had read the Vorrh trilogy? I jusy finished it and it was...something.
Tue May 12, 2020 7:43 pm
Simple Torture wrote:The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
Tue May 12, 2020 7:46 pm
Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
This has been on my radar for a bit, might try to read it this summer.
Tue May 12, 2020 7:47 pm
durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
This has been on my radar for a bit, might try to read it this summer.
Just added it to my list.
How is it ST?
Tue May 12, 2020 7:49 pm
Simple Torture wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:Simple Torture wrote:The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
This has been on my radar for a bit, might try to read it this summer.
Just added it to my list.
How is it ST?
I've only read the first two chapters. As advertised so far! (that is a good thing)
Tue May 12, 2020 9:05 pm
durdencommatyler wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Joey, were you the one who had read the Vorrh trilogy? I jusy finished it and it was...something.
Yes!
It's, at times, fantastic and terrifying in both content and imagination. I think, ultimately, it's uneven. But there's something about where and how it fails that I find even more interesting. It's like its bruises make it more beautiful somehow. I liked the journey though I found myself frustrated by certain choices throughout. I think saying it "was...something" is exactly right.
Tue May 12, 2020 9:08 pm
Simple Torture wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Joey, were you the one who had read the Vorrh trilogy? I jusy finished it and it was...something.
Yes!
It's, at times, fantastic and terrifying in both content and imagination. I think, ultimately, it's uneven. But there's something about where and how it fails that I find even more interesting. It's like its bruises make it more beautiful somehow. I liked the journey though I found myself frustrated by certain choices throughout. I think saying it "was...something" is exactly right.
Yeah, the prose was just great page-to-page, it really felt like I was sinking into the novel's world the more I worked myself in. I had planned to spread out the volumes with a bunch of books in between but it just drew me in and enveloped me. Form/content etc. And there were some truly terrifying chapters, as well as some ones that were mystical and not in the "hey, let me tell you about my crystals" sort of way, but in a way that made the magic and myth of the text feel weighty and substantial, like you felt like you had to believe. But I think you're right, there were parts of the mythology that just didn't fit together that felt like they should've, or if there was an offhand passage somewhere explaining it, I missed it (I'm thinking about the warehouse specifically). Then there were parts that made me feel dumb, like:
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Then there were parts where I felt like the book thought I was dumb. Like:
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I bet it would get even better if I read it again, but that probably isn't happening until I'm like 85.
Thu May 21, 2020 2:49 pm
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Thu May 21, 2020 3:39 pm
Simple Torture wrote:Super high on my list of "would love to re-read but probably never will."
Thu May 21, 2020 3:49 pm
Thu May 21, 2020 3:56 pm
Simple Torture wrote:It's everything you've ever heard about it. I think I read it 15 hears ago and still think about it regularly.