House of Liars by Elsa Morente

[Miss.K]

It's about 15 years ago that I read this book, and I thought it was an excellent read.

It is one of this tragic stories about obsession, and narcissism where A loves B, who loves C, who loves D who only loves himself, seen through the eyes of the young daughter of one of the implicated.


-WARNING, BELOW CONTAINS SPOILERS-





By the end of it one is so sick of the caricature of love described, that one feels sick to the stomach (and probably forever cured of wanting to engage in such insanity) and then the girl moves in with a kind woman (I don't remember if it's her aunt) and she gets a cat. Then the book ends with a love poem from her to her cat, that invokes in one the feeling of pure love and friendship devoid of wanting/demanding, so the inside melts, and the contrast makes the difference of wrong love and right love very clear...

 

[loreta]

It's about 15 years ago that I read this book, and I thought it was an excellent read.

It is one of this tragic stories about obsession, and narcissism where A loves B, who loves C, who loves D who only loves himself, seen through the eyes of the young daughter of one of the implicated.


-WARNING, BELOW CONTAINS SPOILERS-





By the end of it one is so sick of the caricature of love described, that one feels sick to the stomach (and probably forever cured of wanting to engage in such insanity) and then the girl moves in with a kind woman (I don't remember if it's her aunt) and she gets a cat. Then the book ends with a love poem from her to her cat, that invokes in one the feeling of pure love and friendship devoid of wanting/demanding, so the inside melts, and the contrast makes the difference of wrong love and right love very clear...

Thanks to remember us of this excellent writer, not very known these days. But she was so famous for one book that, if I remember correctly, was about war and a woman during war times. I never read her, I don't know why. The other day I found a book by her and I did not took it, damn me! Did you know that she died after a long battle of
Alzheimer? Thanks for the advise to read her.

 

[Miss.K]

Thanks to remember us of this excellent writer, not very known these days. But she was so famous for one book that, if I remember correctly, was about war and a woman during war times. I never read her, I don't know why. The other day I found a book by her and I did not took it, damn me! Did you know that she died after a long battle of
Alzheimer? Thanks for the advise to read her.

No,I didn't know she got Altzheimers. Poor woman. At least it seems she used her brain well while it worked (excellent skills of observation)
I only read that one book by her, perhaps I should check out the others.

Funny that you just saw a book by her. It happens often to me that I just saw/thought about something, and look at the forum, and someone has posted about something similar :)