The Handmaid's Tale

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978-0-7352-5330-8
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The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as Republic of Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" – the ruling class of men.

The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale").The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also …

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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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