My Year of Rest and Relaxation
von Ottessa Moshfegh
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & AudibleA New York Times Bestseller“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —VogueFrom one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
von Ottessa Moshfegh
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & AudibleA New York Times Bestseller“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —VogueFrom one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(28)
Rezension von Arina MahwiThis must be the most overrated books of all time. It’s about a young beautiful, financially privileged woman in New York who, feeling empty and disconnected, decides to escape life by sleeping for a year. She visits a questionable psychiatrist and keeps lying to her to get a mix of medications to keep her in a drug-induced slumber. I don’t understand how some people saw this character as some radical act of Feminism. As she slips in and out of consciousness, the novel explores themes of depression and the search for meaning in modern life. It was full of unlikable characters and I felt like it’s trying to be disturbing at the expense of having a plot.
Rezension von Res Theo SiguschIdee dieses Buches mega. Sprache auch gut, war schnell drinnen. Nur ging mir der Hauptcharakter dann doch teilweise auf die Nerven. Ende fand ich krass und gut, so auf den letzten Metern nochmal richtig draufgehauen.
Rezension von Hannah This book was really one of my favorite books I have ever read. I felt so connected to the narrator even though she seems so unlikable in so many situations. The way that the book is written gives such an amazing sight into the head of the narrator while still maintaining a kind of “What is going on?” Atmosphere.
Rezension von 🎀How does something so boring can be so good?
Rezension von Emma Dieses Buch hat einen Plott in dem (sogut wie) nichts passiert, etwas mit dem ich mich oft schwertue. Und trotzdem habe ich jede Seite verschlungen. Dazu tragen für mich verschiedene Faktoren bei. Das Konzept, dass so absurd, so faszinierend ist, dass ich unbedingt mehr wissen musste. Der Humor, so morbide und zwanglos, und damit einhergehend die Charaktere, die Beobachtungen der Protagonistin, ihre verdrehten und gleichzeitig so verständlichen Ansichten. Die zerschmetternde Kritik an unserer Gesellschaft, der Kunstwelt, dem Frauenbild, ... nur um dann ganz normal weiter zu machen. Und ganz besonders Moshfeghs Art zu schreiben, die für mich genial ist. Die unglaubliche Erschöpfung der eigentlich sehr priviligierten Protagonistin mit der Welt, sehr nachvollziehbar, ist in jeder Zeile spürbar und trotzdem nicht plakativ, erzwungen oder erdrückend. Stattdessen war das Buch für mich auf seltsame und unerwartete Weise tröstlich. Für mich sehr lesenswert und eine riesige Bereicherung.