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The Passion of New Eve is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1977. …

Did not finish this book, got perhaps 25% in. Absolutely disliked it. I just don't have the stomach for 2d wave feminism. -at all-. Main gripes:

  • I have a huge issue with this white author to consistently want to use Black women as the vessels to make her point or something. I have since had a quick look at academic analyses that mention the book and am not the only person who sees this as problematic.
  • Didn't like the style at all, too many descriptive terms with too little point, while also seemingly trying to be as brutal as possible with it. Only two other books have aggravated me this much style wise and those are de Sade's "Justine" and Salinger's "The catcher in the Rye". I think this books is in the same vein linguistically and I just don't like it