I don’t really know what I was expecting with this book but it was absolutely not this. At first I was totally confused about what was going on and if the chapter one of the book was even part of the book but once I got through a few of them I kind of figured […]
I enjoyed reading this week’s book by Merce Rodoreda thoroughly. The protagonist, Natalia is challenged constantly throughout this book right from the beginning when she is almost forcefully scooped up into a relationship with Quimet, who in my opinion is one of the most unpleasant characters as of yet, right behind Saro the paedo from […]
I enjoyed reading Black Shack Alley as I did not know much about the circumstances in the Caribbean islands during this period so it was a refreshing read. The grim living conditions of the Black Shack Alley are totally contrasted with Jose’s naivety in the beginning to what is going on around him and in […]
This short novel by Moravia I thoroughly enjoyed reading and is definitely my favorite reading thus far in the course. It is fascinating to see how quickly Agostino loses his innocence through his encounters with the gang of boys from Vespucci beach and is exposed to some of the harsher and darker realities of the […]
I found this weeks short book by Maria Luisa Bombal certainly to be the most enjoyable one for myself following Breton and Proust. The text felt much more fluid and readable than the previous weeks as it did not have me constantly rereading parts of it to try and figure out what was going on. […]
So this was my first real taste of Surrealism, (I think) and I do not think it is quite the writing style fit for me… I definitely think the idea behind Surrealism is cool in how it is meant to blend together reality and thoughts, both conscious and unconscious to create the Surreal world which […]
I had no background on this book at all going into it which is something I will do sometimes before starting a novel to get the a feeling for it before diving right in. In the beginning I was definitely a little bit lost in what or who Proust was writing about. What or who […]
Hello everyone, my name is Romeo Gelber and I am a third year history student. I was born in Italy in the small city of Gubbio, in Umbria, but moved to the Kootenay region in BC shortly after and grew up there my whole life. Some things I enjoy doing are playing the piano, big […]
