RMST really was a nice change of scenery in place of the usual academic course. I was able to learn while not feel immense pressure from the course matter. I really was surprised by a lot of the books in the course, they covered themes I was not at all expecting. I thought of a […]
I really liked how this final novel seemed to link back to Marcel Proust’s novel (our very first book in the course) with the mechanism of using a train/subway to represent motion wether in time for Proust or in different stories for Luiselli’s novella. I think its interesting the emphasis on the subway being below […]
This book was really interesting to me in that it brought up conversations on how death is inherently linked to politics and that it brings value to the policies of politics. Saramago shows that death is what brings value as he highlights how starting with the queen evading her death led to bringing monarchy to […]
Just based off the tags of the book, I was interested to get myself in some sort of thriller novel that to according to different people was either loose fiction or way to open truth. The idea of truth comes to the forefront here on wether or not it is acceptable to construe the truth […]
I want to start by saying this book surprised me in that the relationship with the older man was so readily accepted. The narrator explains the story as if the natural hierarchy is dismantled, which would be nice in theory but I believe she is deluded in her train of thought. In the lecture, it […]
I to start did not really enjoy this book however it did make me ponder. Macabea a complicated but rather very simply presented character as being extremely passive has made me think. Think just as the author had at the start of the novel has they sparced through their thoughts trying to figure out the […]
While reading this book I couldn’t help but wonder why Natalia was so clueless and naive to the world. Perhaps its because I am coming as a woman, but I really was confused on why Natalia did not immediately spot the red flags in Quimet. The author at the start of the novel sort of […]
I really liked this novel and the themes of perseverance throughout. From the start of the book where a younger José despite his circumstances is seen meeting up with his friends and causing a raucous. While I can’t relate completely to his situation, I found myself reminiscing on my own childhood where my own gang […]
Moravia’s novel Agostino honestly did not go in the direction I thought it was leading towards. From reading the very first few pages I thought it would be about family dynamics and his relationship with his mother. While even as I read some hints of whats to come with his strange perceptions of his mother, […]
This book took me through a whirl wind of emotions. I felt very closely connected to the character that was “the shrouded woman” and felt myself relating each of her past interactions wether it be with her father or with her siblings, I felt what she may have felt through the author’s words. I found […]
