If all the rest of his mistresses can survive without him, so could Teresa, if left alone. His work is underlined by an anachronistic condescension and not so much misogyny as has been advertised. Thomas's escapades as an irresistible sexual creature sometimes feel braggartly, and he seems to have a singularly masculine perspective to sex accompanied by a stereotypical male gaze. The author though intelligent seems to oscillate between brazenness and tenderness, seemingly more out of personal than artistic limitation. His enchantment with revolution is all too recognizable in today's world of online virtue signaling and armchair activism- where an abundance of 280 character outrage eclipse the values of kindness and action. Personally, I was influenced by Teresa's guilt and body shame inherited from a careless mother Sabrina's unnamed nostalgia Franz's Church-void and birthing into a clean and honest life. The first half of the book glides elegantly, meandering through concepts of fidelity, politics, passion and art. Polarising yet extremely popular, this piece of literature did not do it for me.
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