Hi Romance Studiers, This is the last Ellie post of all time! Throughout this semester, I have been reflecting on an internal issue of mine that is somewhat relevant to my feelings towards the course. One of my favourite non-curricular activities is writing, whether that be songs or poems, I just love to write. Despite […]
Hi Romance Studiers, After finishing Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Faces in the Crowd’ and taking a few days to sit with it, I can officially say I got ankle broken. I don’t get it and I wanted to so bad! After watching professor Beasley’s lecture, it did comfort me with one fact, that is that Luiselli intentionally […]
Hi Romance Studiers, After taking a day to think about the book and watch the lecture, I would say that I overall enjoyed Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. I found the way Piglia humanizes these criminals and the surrounding characters very compelling. The main themes that I felt the story kept touching on was masculinity, […]
Hi Romance Studiers, Going into reading “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras, I was warned by my girlfriend who had read it during her IB English class in high school. My takeaway a third into the book was “I cannot believe they made highschoolers read and analyze this text” and it did not get better. Even […]
Hi Romance Studiers, After taking a day to reflect on what I read in Clarice Lispector’s “The Hour of the Star”, all I could think about was how honest and transparent the narrator/author was the whole time. The book itself is quite short, being only 70ish pages but the characters within the story were so […]
Hi Romance Studiers, While I was initially put off by Mercè Rodoreda’s writing style in his story “The Time of the Doves”, as I continued to read I found myself more engaged and captivated by the characterization of Natalie. The transition from depicting a woman going through the process of domestication through patriarchal forces to […]
Hi Romance Studiers, Throughout my reading of Alberto Moravia’s Agostino, I could not decide whether I enjoyed the text or not. On one hand, I thought it was a cool exploration of how socio-economic class affects the socialization agents that develop a child’s outlook on the world, as well as how the different boys view […]
Hi Romance Studiers, It has been a day since I finished reading Roberto Arlt’s novel “Mad Toy” and my overall experience with it was quite pleasurable. I found Silvio’s personal turmoil in most chapters to be quite relatable and the narrative as a whole engaged me throughout the entire reading. While I have been very […]
Hi Romance Studiers, After reading Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way”, part 1 “Combray”, I found myself lost and dissatisfied. Conceptually, the idea of building a world through the lens of a child, and as they grow up and realize the beauty of the world they live in, so does the reader, was very interesting. The execution […]
