I have to say, I really did like the writing style, it was the only thing that got me through most of it because the length (Last minute reading) was kind of intimidating. While there were a lot of things I loved about this story, I also realized that books ragebait me way too easily […]
Posted in Blogs, Zobel | Tagged with black shack alley, classism, education, poverty, race, slavery
I actually quite liked this one despite how long it was. Though I can’t tell how much of the writing style is Laforet and how much is the translation, it’s by far my favourite so far (though the bar is low). I’m starting to think it may not be the texts that are the issue […]
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To give credit where credit is due that was at least more readable than the previous texts. That being said, I need someone to draw up a family tree of all of the names that popped up because goddamn was that a lot. I admittedly confused the names of Antonio and Alberto at one point, […]
Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with death, Divorce Babes, ESH, memory, reflection
I really thought that after Proust, the texts would get significantly more comprehensible. Wrong. I can’t even articulate my thoughts through the entire beginning of the text on here because it includes so much profanity. It’s entirely possible that I’m missing something because where does the whole play from the start come into relevance? I […]
Posted in Blogs, Breton | Tagged with chaos, Insanity, madness, nadja
Let me just start off by saying that that was not even remotely what I expected. This felt like a fever dream, I have reread sections and still don’t totally know what the point of some of that was. It felt like it was flitting back and forth between things, or going on tangents, and […]
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with combray, memory, nostalgia, time
Hello! I’m Ava. I’m a second year psychology student and have absolutely no idea what I would like to do with that degree! (I’m living in denial of having to figure it out). I’m currently taking five courses alongside work, so I’m admittedly hoping this course has some ebbs and flows to the work level. […]
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