“Delirium opens when its main protagonist, an ex-English professor turned traveling Purina salesman named Aguilar, discovers that while away on a four-day business trip his wife Agustina endured an experience that provoked a severe dissolution of her sanity. The book chronicles Aguilar’s search for answers and his efforts to rehabilitate his young, beautiful and admittedly singular wife through the use of alternating narrative styles that, as the novel progresses, shed further light on the mysterious events that took place during Aguilar’s absence as well as the nature of Agustina’s family and childhood, both of which precipitated Agustina’s struggle with mental illness.” Description from Wikipedia.
I could not get into the characters of this novel as it was nearly impossible to tell who’s perspective we were reading from. It was constantly changing who we were reading from and then different tenses going between, first, second, and third, sometimes all in the same paragraph. It was honestly confusing and a hard time to differentiate between characters.
The atmosphere was the best and possibly only good part about this novel. It is set in Colombia but maybe some parts were in Europe? I am still unsure about that. This book took place at such a tumultuous time and location that you are bound to have great stories from it.
The writing was too difficult to understand. As I touched on earlier, there were constant changes in perspective and tense that I really had a hard time following the writing without confusion.
This story sounds extremely interesting. To my understanding it was a husband trying to get a woman out of her madness by telling her stories of the past. Again, I could be wrong because I was extremely confused. However, if that is the plot, that is interesting and needs to be executed better.
I could not get into the characters of this novel as it was nearly impossible to tell who’s perspective we were reading from.It was honestly confusing and a hard time to differentiate between characters.The atmosphere was the best and possibly only good part about this novel.This book took place at such a tumultuous time and location that you are bound to have great stories from it.The writing was too difficult to understand. As I touched on earlier, there were constant changes in perspective and tense that I really had a hard time following the writing without confusion.This story sounds extremely interesting.However, if that is the plot, that is interesting and needs to be executed better. ‘Delirium’ made me delirious.
1 out of 5 stars.
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