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@marginalianotes
Read Jul 12, 2024
Slow Burn
Tartt is doing something deeply unfashionable here — writing a 700-page novel about beauty, grief, and the moral weight of objects. In an era of spare, minimalist literary fiction, The Goldfinch is unapologetically maximalist.
The Amsterdam section is where people lose patience, and I get it. But the messiness is the point. Theo's life is a mess. His relationships are a mess. The only clean thing in his world is a tiny painting by a Dutch master.
Is it too long? Probably. Would I cut a single page? Absolutely not.
Press Into Hands
“For anyone who's ever clung to a beautiful thing during an ugly time.”
MelancholyHauntingAtmosphericDark Academia
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@marginalianotes ✦FounderJul 14
That last line -- "Would I cut a single page? Absolutely not" -- is how I feel about every Tartt book. She earns the length. The Amsterdam section is the novel breathing.
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