The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (The Cannons) -

James Hogg

Cannongate

2018

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9781786891860

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a startling tale of murder and madness set in a time of troubles like our own. Robert Wringhim is a religious fanatic: one of God's chosen who believes himself free to disregard the strictures of morality—a view in which he is much encouraged by the elusive, peculiarly striking foreigner who becomes his dearest friend. Describing the seductive mutual dependence of these soulmates and the way—efficient at first, then increasingly intoxicated—they go about settling scores with their (and of course God's) enemies, James Hogg presents a powerful picture of evil in the world and in the heart and mind. This work of black humor, acute psychological insight, and, in the end, deeply compassionate humanity is one of the masterpieces of literature in English.

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2 (Razoável)

Not the book's fault

My two-star evaluation has nothing to do with the quality of this literature. It certainly is related to some of its aspects - one of them being the fact that the narrative has no break for chapters or nothing of the sort: it just simply flows from page one till the last one - but I can't say it's badly written or anything. The thing is I never really connected to the story and it took me a long time to complete the reading. Whatever connection or identification that was expected to be had was lost completely. I had to be more immersed in it to enjoy what I read, and that just didn't happen.