Notes of a Crocodile -

Qiu Miaojin

NYRB Classics

2017

257 páginas

8h 34m

ISBN-10: B01JWE1REM

Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.

Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend.

Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.

Resenhas (9)

3.5 (Bom)

A escrita desse livro é a coisa mais linda, mas confesso que as vezes me perdia na história, e demorei pra entender que os capítulos dos crocodilos eram uma analogia ( brilhante por sinal)