It feels like just yesterday we were discussing Proust and madeleines… Funnily enough, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time was actually my favorite text we read during this class. I loved how immersive the prose was. The entire text had a dreamlike feel, reminding me strongly of what it was like toContinue reading “My Final Post :(“
I found reading Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn a fragmented experience. Because the book is told largely through newspaper reports and secret police recordings, but also through details the author is almost certainly taking creative liberties with, I was unsure how much of the book was fiction and how much wasn’t. I also for someContinue reading “Journalism Through the Looking-Glass: Money to Burn”
Because The Lover is the shortest of the texts I’ve read for this course so far, I spent less time reading it and more time reflecting on it. In reflecting on it, I found myself focusing on the rather banal theme of objectification—banal because it’s one of the most obvious themes to connect to aContinue reading “That Was Uncomfortable But I Still Enjoyed It – My Experience Reading The Lover“
From the first few pages, I immediately liked If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler more than the other books I’ve been reading for this course. While most of the books take a bit of time to get going, and for the story to gather enough momentum to sweep you along, I was immediately interestedContinue reading “Reader as Character in “Italo Calvino’s New Novel””
Initially, I didn’t like The Time of the Doves. For a while I couldn’t figure out why. I found that some kind of energy was missing from the book. When I made it to page 79, however, I realized why I had found the book unappealing up to that point, and from that moment onwardContinue reading “Inner Life and Agency in Rodoreda’s Time of the Doves“
The Shrouded Woman is told through the eyes of a dead woman, Ana Maria. Though she is dead, she can still think and feel, and is aware of her surroundings. Thus she begins by telling us about where she is lying, and about the people coming to visit her. She then begins to reminisce aboutContinue reading ““How Do You Know?” “A Dead Woman Told Me” (The Shrouded Woman)”
The first thing that struck me when reading Proust’s Combray was how smooth, continuous, and flowing the prose was. While many books are cut up quite finely by short sentences, paragraph breaks, and general changes in topic, Combray reads like one smooth flow. It features very long sentences and paragraphs, and it moves through descriptionContinue reading “Combray – A Childhood Proust’s Stream of Consciousness”
Hello all. My name is Finn, and this is my first year at UBC, majoring in psychology. I grew up in California, and I came here because I love Vancouver and I have Canadian citizenship, meaning I pay less for school here than in the United States. In my free time I like to write,Continue reading “Introduction”
