Title: Quite Difficult to Comprehend What's Real and Imagined...
Product review: A third-grader would know enough vocabulary to read this book from beginning to end. It is what the philosophical implication of the work that baffles me, and probably, many. Instead of being a novel, Soul Mountain reads as if it is made up of 80 short stories (the book is divided into 80 chapters). Call it diary or freelance essays, the chapters don't seem to have apparent connection with one another. I do not quite understand the implications of "I" and "you" used throughout the work. It seems to me that "you" is actually the reflection of "I". "You" and "I" are used in alternating fashion throughout the book. The authorial self is thus (I guess) divided into first-person and second-person perspectives. It seems that the author reflects on his actual trip when he uses "You". Again I might have to re-read and find the answer.
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