The Handmaid's Tale

Paperback, 325 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 16 de marzo de 1998 por Anchor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-385-49081-8
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Número OCLC:
964816254

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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a moth and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now...

Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

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Meh

I read the Handmaid's Tale yesterday, finally. I'm disappointed. I did not like the writing style at all, there was no real story, just descriptions. And then it just ended. No conclusion or anything.

My best guess it's because the TV show was so intense and well made (at least the earlier seasons), and the book was... Not? Episodes would stay with me for days, but I'm struggling to recall the book.

Maybe the book is supposed to be unsatisfying to go with the theme. Nothing much happened after Gilead was created, every day just kinda goes by. Sure there was some torture and death, but... Eh.

Maybe I was expecting too much after all the praise it got. It's my first Atwood book, and way way outside of my usual genre (fantasy, scifi, horror).

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“Criada” = persona que sirve a otra. Pienso en ese lugar ¿hostil? ¿macabro? ¿cruel? que plantea el libro a la mujer: ser criada, ser útil, ser objeto, ser vasija. La mujer reducida a un útero, esa vasija que llevamos dentro. Y que más vale que sea útil porque si no su vida no tiene sentido.
El cuento de la criada, de Margaret Atwood marcó un momento fuerte en mi recorrido lector. Ocupó su espacio, digamos, adentro de mi cabeza. Generó un hueco donde instalarse y esparcir sus ideas como quien derrama una tinta que todo lo mancha. No importaba que después de leer, dejara el libro en otro sitio y quisiera pensar otras cosas. Lo único que lograba era ver la tinta extendiéndose en mi pensamiento y ocupando todo el lugar, como si mi cabeza fuera de papel muy poroso. De pronto solo podía pensar en ella, la criada de …

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  • Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
  • Misogyny -- Fiction
  • Women -- Fiction