Honestly, reading this book makes me really uncomfortable. Especially with the relationship dynamic that Agostino has with his mother and how that relationship is convoluted and morphed into an eroticized figure. At some points in the book, I couldn’t …
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Honestly, reading this book makes me really uncomfortable. Especially with the relationship dynamic that Agostino has with his mother and how that relationship is convoluted and morphed into an eroticized figure. At some points in the book, I couldn’t …
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Whilst reading The Shrouded Woman, I didn’t immediately realize that Ana Maria was dead. I might have missed a couple of details at the start, but I don’t expect to fully grasp all of the details upon my first reading. I only realized she was dead a bi…
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Whilst reading The Shrouded Woman, I didn’t immediately realize that Ana Maria was dead. I might have missed a couple of details at the start, but I don’t expect to fully grasp all of the details upon my first reading. I only realized she was dead a bi…
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What really stood out to me after reading the book and watching conversation and lecture videos was a point mentioned where Nadja functions as a projection of the narrator’s inner disorder or insecurity. It’s so evidently put, a void in the narrator’s …
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What really stood out to me after reading the book and watching conversation and lecture videos was a point mentioned where Nadja functions as a projection of the narrator’s inner disorder or insecurity. It’s so evidently put, a void in the narrator’s …
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To be honest, what I got out of reading Proust was immense, incredibly detailed and vivid descriptions of the sort of scene Proust wants us to imagine. This book was particularly challenging for me. I could hardly understand what I was reading in…
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Hi, my name is Josh Tan. I am a third-year student in the dual degree program, pursuing political science and management under the B+MM program. I took this class as an elective to fulfill my degree’s literature requirement, and given this, I expect to…
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Hi, my name is Josh Tan. I am a third-year student in the dual degree program, pursuing political science and management under the B+MM program. I took this class as an elective to fulfill my degree’s literature requirement, and given this, I expect to…
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