The Handmaid's Tale

Tapa blanda, 479 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 6 de julio de 2016 por VINTAGE.

ISBN:
978-1-78487-144-4
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Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaids, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept.

Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away, But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire.

BACKSTORY: Read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel

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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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