6/26/2023 0 Comments Sally rooney new book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Crying over Sally Rooney’s characters feels like an intensely private catharsis. ![]() People speak of relating so deeply to the characters that reading takes on a kind of delicious agony. Not attending a party, not reuniting with friends, not going on a date. When you are reading a Sally Rooney novel, you don’t want to be doing anything else. She has an uncanny ability to make a story into a kind of shelter for a reader. Rooney’s books create a public commotion in which the same sentiments are echoed: That they herald a new era in literature, that her releases are anticipated like new iPhone models, that she has achieved major success so young it’s almost rude, that she is a Marxist, that her books have more sex in them, possibly, than you’ve had in your entire life.īut the inexpressible magic of Sally Rooney novels-very much including Beautiful World-is the way they make you feel. “But at the same time, that is what I do every day.” “It seems vulgar, decadent, even epistemically violent, to invest energy in the trivialities of sex and friendship when human civilization is facing collapse,” Eileen writes to Alice. And they consider how to live when the world, evidence suggests, is ending. Alice, Eileen, Simon, and Felix deal with ghosting and house parties, wanting to die and wedding culture, Roman vacations and bad roommates. ![]()
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