Being Peruvian definitely shaped how I read this book. I probably would have enjoyed it even more if it had not been midterm season, but I still ended up liking it a lot. Through Ernesto’s inner conflict you can understand a lot about the society around him. He is mestizo, and because he grew up […]
Reading Agostino felt worse than Proust for me. Besides the fact that it is uncomfortable in a way that seems very intentional, it lost my attention at many parts of the book. The way it is written felt repetitive or bland, yet there are some interesting parts in this story. “She wasn’t naked, as he […]
“But now, now that I am dead, it occurs to me that possibly all men once in their lifetime long to make some great renunciation… in order to feel themselves masters of their own destiny.” wow…. I really liked this novel. The narration through a “ghost’s” POV made it interesting in a way […]
I really liked this book and managed to read it in one sitting, unlike Proust. I read it in the original language, Spanish, and I was a tiny bit lost at first. Honestly, I think it might have been easier for me to read it in English. I don’t know if my Spanish vocabulary has […]
For me, this whole novel lost me at many parts, but the moments where I did pay attention, it gave me one specific feeling: nostalgia. Proust shows nostalgia exactly as it feels, like being immediately pulled away into the past without choosing to. First of all, I want to answer the lecture’s questions. What do […]
Hi! I’m Laura. I’m from Lima, Peru, and I moved to Vancouver about four years ago. I’m currently a third-year student pursuing a BA in Economics with a minor in Commerce. If you read that and thought, “This person does not scream literature,” you’d be right. I’m not really a “literature” person, and like many […]
