What a change of perspective! The story of "1984" told by Julia and "Lolita" told by the now grown-up Dolores Haze instead of the paedophile Humbert Humbert.
Trigger warning: "Julia" is like "1984" very dystopian. "Bye bye Lolita" contains details of sexual abuse.
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The Power of Retellings! 📚✨
Huge thanks to everyone who shared book titles with a new perspective. Now I'm 100% convinced—retelling stories is definitely a thing!
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@RonjaBiernat I'd be interested to read the 1984 one. I'm not so much interested in Lolita. Although I'd proably read this new version before the original. Also: can't read German anyway.
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@lydiaconwell I am curious to know what you think of the book. I read a little over 3/4 of the book, but decided to stop for now. It was just too dystopian for me.
And I never read the original Lolita either. Even as a young girl it felt wrong. At the time I didn't have the words to explain why it was wrong and why I didn't want to read it. Lea Ruckpaul has found the words.
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@RonjaBiernat Oh I like 1984. I don't know how much of a socialist Orwell trully was (I suspect he was a fraud) but it's a decent book about an authoritarian state.
Julia doesn't feature a lot and there isn't much to her, so I think a novel from her perspective has the potential to be very creative and add more to the world.
I remember the part where Winston reads a banned book dragged on a bit. Very dull, that part.
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@RonjaBiernat As for Lolita. I'm always interested in novels that are daring and discuss dark things. But I just have no interest in reading about a child groomer.
I mean, the book could be very good, but the subject matter isn't appealing to me.
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@RonjaBiernat @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon I’m waiting on 101 Dalmatians from Cruella DeVille’s perspective.
Can all books be done like this now? I guess you could just type in an LLM…
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@RonjaBiernat I hope there'll be a translation of Bye Bye Lolita someday.
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@reading_recluse I hope so too. Maybe there is a translation out there and I just haven't been able to find it.
To the book community:
Does anyone in the book community know of a translation of "Bye Bye Lolita" by German author Lea Ruckpaul?
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@RonjaBiernat Heel interessant! En cool ze als paar te lezen.
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@SonjaS ...ook best heftig. De perspectiefwissel werd me trouwens pas echt bewust toen de boeken naast elkaar in mijn boekenkast stonden.
Nu lees ik even een ander boek tussendoor, omdat ik behoefte heb aan iets empowerends.
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julia was sooo good but a hard read!
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@RonjaBiernat @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon I hope there is a whole genre forming of retellings from the perspective of different characters within the original stories. Julia is a great example. So is James, by Percival Everett, a retelling of Huck Finn from the perspective of Jim. Also, Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati, is a retelling of The Trojan War through the eyes of Clytemnestra, instead of centering Agamemnon.
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@kimlockhartga @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon Oh wow, thanks for sharing. I was hoping it would be a new genre, but looking at your list it is already a new one :)
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@RonjaBiernat @kimlockhartga Also Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation (other perspective on Camus' The Stranger). @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon
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@ak_text @RonjaBiernat @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon ooooh nice! I never thought about a retelling of The Stranger.
I should add that there are also retellings that are close to the perspective of the original, but which add more inclusivity, such as THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL, a Queer Asian Feminist Gatsby retelling, or THE KING OF INFINITE SPACE, a very loose modern-day Hamlet by Lyndsay Faye.
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@kimlockhartga I really liked James, and Wide Sargasso Sea, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. James made me think of all the code switching that's often necessary for survival.
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@sunumbral YES. You are such an amazing reader. ❤️❤️❤️
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@kimlockhartga So many books I'll never get to, that was my midlife crisis decades ago, looking at the shelves in a bookstore, but it passed.
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@sunumbral at some point, we realize that there are millions of books in circulation and we have to make peace with that realization.
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@sunumbral @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I didn't love it, but Will Eisner's Fagin the Jew is a retelling / dismantling of Oliver Twist.
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Don't forget “The Wind Done Gone”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone
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@negative12dollarbill @RonjaBiernat @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon I didn't know about this one, though I like Alice Randall very much. Thanks for suggesting it!
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@RonjaBiernat @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon @ak_text @RanaldClouston @sunumbral @negative12dollarbill yay!
I actually keep a running list of retellings, which I lump in with reimaginings, because they are so close.
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@kimlockhartga @RonjaBiernat @lesekreis @boeken @bookstodon @ak_text @RanaldClouston @negative12dollarbill That's a good idea.
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