کتاب Wide Sargasso Sea (رمان دریای وسیع سارگاسو)

It’s hard for me to figure out where to start with this one. I’ve been putting off writing this review for weeks, because I really disliked this novel. I was expecting to love it. I finally read Jane Eyre last winter, and it completely blew me away. I was hoping Wide Sargasso Sea would enter into a conversation with Jane Eyre. It’s such a good hook for a novel: to give voice to the voiceless woman in the attic. But Wide Sargasso Sea was disappointing.

For weeks I’ve been trying to figure out why I disliked this book so much. In many ways, I think it has to do as much with the conversation surrounding the novel as the book itself: it’s lauded as a feminist book, and yet, to me, it felt decidedly un-feminist.