Comments on: Sowing the Wind â€” Nadia Raviscioni’s Vent frais, vent du matin

By: DerikB

DerikB — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:44:53 +0000

Not at all! I enjoyed it, and I’m looking forward to rereading it to try to understand/appreciate it more.

By: Matthias Wivel

Matthias Wivel — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:37:05 +0000

It’s definitely not an easy book. I don’t think it’s your French — I was experiencing the same difficulties, especially the first time I read it. It was only upon rereading a couple of times that I really started appreciating it beyond its surface qualities (the quirky, inventive staging and symbology). I think that ultimately, a lot of its specific meaning is too private – cryptic, as you say — to ever become clear, but I found the emotional tone struck and developed very affecting.

I hope you don’t feel I steered you wrong!

By: DerikB

DerikB — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:01:27 +0000

I just read this last week based on the recommendation from your review (when it originally was published). On first reading I felt like I was bouncing between the cryptic and the… well, I can’t think of a good antonym to cryptic… Raviscioni weaves the two together quite well, I could feel the connections but (again, I need to read again since my French can always use a second reading) not really understand them, if that makes sense…

Anyway, thanks for reviewing it.