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This story, and the way that it is written, do a marvelous job of defining life and it's myriad ways. That it is written from the perspective of a physicist provides a truly unique view of all the perspectives of life and love. It is written in the way that I wish I could write now and did write in my youth.


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Gut Symmetries Jeanette Winterson 9780517286937 Books Reviews

Striped to its basics the story is a simple one, with a couple of twists that may add some interests. It is when you add the language, which changes as you switch characters, that makes the book fascinating.

Written as a stream of consciousness or the character as a narrator of its own life, and changing as the character's personality and professional context comes in. I loved in particular as the character of the poet took control.

First book from this author I ever read, not sure if it is a common style in her books.
Gut Symmetries is woven around many things. (Around is the perfect word here.) First, it's about time -- time as it spirals around and around, ahead and behind -- plus, time and space, and how they relate. Second, it's about triangles, in love, and in the Universe. For instance Science, Astrology, Tarot. Past, present, future. The deep, the surface, the sky. Man, woman, child. Stars, starfish, sharks. Father, mother, daughter. Judaism, Catholicism, Agnosticism. And many more.

It's also about duality Love-hate, up-down, life-death, attraction-repulsion, wealth-poverty, young-old, normal-paranormal. And many more. The title refers to two things the gut in the body, and the Grand Unified Theory in physics. The symmetries relate to the physics, and to the love affairs & themes and their resolution.

Don't be intimidated by the physics -- this story is certainly not just about science, and it's certainly not dry and boring.

All of the themes (listed and unlisted) are worked together and around a riveting story. Winterson is a consummate wordsmith - part poet, part mystic, part philosopher, part Jungian, part physics professor (in this book). She is also a wonderful storyteller! She takes huge risks in the structure and subjects of her works, and crafts her books in a way that is so fresh, and unique, that every chapter is a pearl. She has such immense, blazing talent as a writer, that reading her books is a privilege and an absolute joy.

4 ½ stars, only because she has written some other books that are so stellar that this pales in comparison; and this is an AMAZING book!
It feels a bit of a challenge to review Jeanette Winterson’s wondrous 1997 novel Gut Symmetries. And that is Gut, not as intestinal, by the way, as I quickly discovered but as in Grand Unified Theory, which Wiki gives as a model in particle physics in which at high energy, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model which define the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions or forces, are merged into one single force. Though Winterson does also twine in what might be described as our own visceral gut instinct to that more dizzying ‘strong interactions of forces’

Essentially, this beautifully written, dazzling, dizzying novel is a story of an affair, though I even wondered whether describing it as a novel was quite right. It is more like a kind of prose poem, a metaphysical meditation. There is a narrative, but it is not linear. Everything tangles and connects, but is also reassuringly present. I know, irritating waffle from me, but the book is a kind of treasure chest, and the reader picks out fragments and gets obsessed by them, and another reader will probably pick out something quite different

Alice is an English theoretical physicist, and is working through her family history, particularly approaching that time where parents become frail. Jove (Giovanni) is an Italian American, from a Catholic background, older, charismatic, and in the same field. His wife, Stella is a magician of words, a writer, of Jewish background, mysticism her heritage. The three are tied as the electromagnetic weak and strong interactions, merged into a single force. Even in the names of her characters, Winterson is saying more than lies on the surface

“Mathematics and physics, as religion used to do, form a gateway into higher alternatives, a reality that can be apprehended but not perceived. A reality at odds with common sense”

Lest it seem just some writer’s conceit to weave the story of an affair (whether or not it is a mite more unusual than expected) with a meditation on quantum physics and tangles of mysticism, think on this The quantum world, with all its peculiar charms, quarks and disappearing cats in boxes, alive or dead, and particles which manage perhaps to be waves, here, not here and there, turns on its head the solidity of our world. The chair I sit on, so solid seeming, is full of space. Think about that quantum world, and suddenly the world and its comforting familiarity is upside down, looking glass, topsy turvy, strange, enchanted and magical seeming. A pretty parallel to the headiness of falling headlong into love, discovering not only that the world itself is strange, but the lover and the beloved are strange, enchanted and magical to each other. That quantum world of interactions of forces merged into a single force

“Breathe in, breathe out. You breathe time and time’s decay. Matter disposing of itself, still imprinted with its echo, the form it took, the shape of its energy for a little while.

The mediaevals thought that the damned lived in Satan’s belly, hot pouch of indigestion, but damned or saved, what we were continues in the lungs of each other. Nitrogen, oxygen, tell-tale carbon.

Do not mistake me. This is not the afterlife. This is no afterlife. There is life, constantly escaping from the forms it inhabits, leaving behind its shell. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. History is in your nostrils”

Winterson has provided a work-out for mind, heart and viscera, seething with energy and conundrum. I am not sure why or how did not read her when she wrote her first novel back in the 80’s. But I’m thrilled to have a back catalogue to explore
Great book. Great author.
Beautiful read
I can't wait to read Winterson's other work. Her writing is amazing. I am reading Gut Symmetries again in order to mark my favorite observations and language play.
Amazingly beautiful.
This story, and the way that it is written, do a marvelous job of defining life and it's myriad ways. That it is written from the perspective of a physicist provides a truly unique view of all the perspectives of life and love. It is written in the way that I wish I could write now and did write in my youth.