Depths

This is one of the books I've been reading for years. I boughtand and started reading it two, or even three years ago. At last, I settled myself to finish it, and I did. The book is quite true to its name in many ways. Not least because of the way it is written I felt I was drowining in slow and deep waves. The prose is very sparse. The chapters are often one page long - and most often two pages long (there are 403 pages split up into 206 chapters). At first the atmosphere in the book is palpably heavy, extremely regulated and punctual, however later it becomes more oppressing and frenetic as the protagonist's fall (or drowning) into the depths of his own soul intensify.

Depending on your mood you might find the book too long, and too full of symbolic phrases, however I tend to like these…