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Painful MemoriesMan loses memory entirely: nothing to write about; man loses all but the last ten minutes of memory: almost nothing to write about; man loses 24 years of memory from the age of twelve: an interesting premise for literary investigation, particularly about the relationship between memory and feeling. How much is feeling invested memory? What happens to feeling when memory disappears? What happens to memory when it becomes more concentrated in some personal epoch? Krauss's explorati...
A Reader Walks into a RoomI bought "Man" after loving "The History of Love".I don't think I realised until I started reading it that "Man" was her first novel.There were times when I could understand why other readers might be tempted to give it up.I persisted out of loyalty to "History" and out of a sense of anticipation for "Great House".Little did I realise that it would (almost) have me in tears at the end.Where Did My Character Go?"Man" is not a novel of action. Yet I don't think it's quite...
This was different from The History of Love & The Great House, the other two I have read from her. More science fiction/fantasy. Intriguing, actually. About a man whom enters into a psychology experiment in which he essentially borrows another person's mind.... Krauss illuminates quite ingeniously the idea that we are merely a collection of our memories. Minus them, can one really say whom we are? Delete our history, our memory, we have very little. The protagonist Samson Greene is discovered in...
A fresh, fascinating investigation of classic themes of loneliness and isolation. Her prose is so lyrical and poetic that it takes awhile before you realize that Krauss has broken your heart.
The entire premise of this books is that a man wakes up, and has lost the memory of twenty years of his life (he only remembers up to being 12 years old). In itself, not a new concept. However, this book distinguishes itself as a truly unique work of art.Moments of this book terrified me. Krauss makes this book unique by presenting a man who, after the loss of so much, enjoys the emptiness he’s left with. He allows himself to experience every moment beyond what someone burdened with memories can...
I was going to give this 4 stars but changed my mind at the last few pages. Not that it ended poorly, but I just can't put my finger on it. I loved the writing and the poetic one-liners that Krauss is so good at. But I got the "first novel" vibe from this for sure ... in that she seemed to have SO many good things to write/ideas to share that she just inserted gratuitous paragraphs/plotlines that really did nothing for the story. Nice to read those parts since she writes so beautifully, but unne...
Nicole Krauss’s first novel, showing the same mastery of language as The History of Love … absolutely beautiful, perceptive and observant - and also annoying as hell.Krauss uses this story about Samson, a man found wandering in the desert who loses his memory after an operation to remove a tumour, to explore how humanity is intricately linked to remembering, and what identity means if you have no habits. Samson can remember everything since his operation but is left with only his childhood memor...
I was so intrigued by the premise of Krauss’s 2002 debut novel: Samson Greene, a Columbia University English professor in his mid-thirties, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. He’s lost all memory of the past 24 years of his life due to a brain tumor, and after surgery has to try to rebuild a life with his wife, Anna, in New York City. I loved Part One (about the first 80 pages), but then things turn strange. Samson is invited to take part in a neurological experiment back in the Nevada des...
The book starts off very promising. A man loses 24 years of his memory due to a brain tumor. As the book says, we’re nothing but a collection of habits and accumulation of memories. If we lose those memories and habits, we lose our self and start over with a blank slate. That should make a good concept for a very interesting novel. Instead, the story meanders through a series of irrelevant events and characters and doesn’t offer much in the end.From the few places where Krauss discusses things l...
So, my reading group virtually voted to kick me out of the group whenever they decided to move our monthly meetings from Thursday to Wednesday. It's okay that I couldn't make it to the most recent meeting because I seem to like this book much less than the other reading group members here on Goodreads.comIt starts out with a thirty-something year-old man who has no memories since the age of 12. He has all these years and years of people who remember him and things that happened in his life but h...
This book ranks in my list of favorite books of all time. The story is about a young man, Samson Greene, who seems to have everything -- a beautiful wife, a professorship at Columbia University, a home in NYC, good friends... a near-perfect life. But a strange tumor on his brain causes him to lose his memory -- all except the first 12 of his life. So the book starts with him wandering the desert near Las Vegas, mistaken for a homeless man, discovered by the police. His wife is called and by that...
