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Hi, everyone. Welcome to my fifth blog! This week I read "Agostino" written by Alberto Moravia. It is a complicated story. I have many thoughts to share with you.The protagonist is a little boy named Agostino. When I first started reading this boo... read full post >>

I had a lot of emotions and thoughts while reading Agostino by Alberto Moravia, to say the least. Firstly, based on the short description of the book on the RMST website alone, I don’t think I would have ever picked this book on my own volition. However, I am quite glad I picked this book, […] read full post >>

One theme that I found interesting in the novel was the theme of transition. Agostino is often caught between childhood and adulthood and expresses the want to enter the next stage of his life by doing more “adult” things. I think the moment when he isn’t allowed into the home at the end of the […] read full post >>

Okay, let me just say this up front: There isn’t a single universe where Andrea’s family would win that. For context, “Nada” is a coming-of-age novel written by Carmen Laforet about an orphan who moves to Barcelona post-Spanish Civil War in order to attend university. She moves into her formerly-wealthy-but-now-poor grandmother’s apartment with several relatives: […] read full post >>

This week I read Agostino and it definitely was something. The whole time I was kind of weirded out by Agostino, to be honest. I actually said out loud to myself at one point is this boy attracted to his mother?! Freud would have a field day. But I do understand that this is a […] read full post >>

Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman is my third book of this course. It is almost February, time really does fly. Anyway. Prof said last week that The Shrouded Woman might be a response to Breton’s Nadja. I can see why he said that. Surrealism wants to unleash the unconcious mind; modernism challenges readers to approach from a different perspective (a […] read full post >>

Overall, I think this is my favourite read so far. The title “The Shrouded Woman” alone was both interesting and captivating. It almost added an air of mystery to the narrative. I found that it had more of the structure that I was familiar with, similar to the standard structure that I have seen before […] read full post >>

As I turned the pages of María Luisa Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman,” I found the narrative beautiful but haunting at the same time. With its unique premise of a woman narrating her life posthumously, this novel definitely offers a profound exploration of love, loss, and the complexities of the female psyche. I liked how Bombal […] read full post >>

Usually they say that one’s life flashes before their eyes right before they pass on. I thoroughly enjoyed experiencing Ana Maria life through Bombal’s unique storytelling structure. Although Ana has passed and can no longer interact with the world as a living being, A Shrouded Woman is filled with interactions and connections through the her … Continue reading Thoughts on A Shrouded Woman read full post >>

This book took me through a whirl wind of emotions. I felt very closely connected to the character that was “the shrouded woman” and felt myself relating each of her past interactions wether it be with her father or with her siblings, I felt what she may have felt through the author’s words. I found […] read full post >>

Impressions This week’s reading on Shrouded Woman was written in a poetic style with an imaginary and descriptive expression. The literature was like a fusion between a poem and a novel. The usage of literary devices such as similes and anaphoras, instills a vivid scenery. For example, the word falling is used in the following […] read full post >>

In “The Shrouded Woman” by María Luisa Bombal, Ana Maria looks back on the people in her life after her death. I found this book slower and more difficult to get through compared to “Mad Toy” but I enjoyed Bombal’s poetic style of writing.The recurring... read full post >>

In “The Shrouded Woman” by María Luisa Bombal, Ana Maria looks back on the people in her life after her death. I found this book slower and more difficult to get through compared to “Mad Toy” but I enjoyed Bombal’s poetic style of writing.The recurring... read full post >>

The Shrouded Woman by Bombal was this weeks required reading, which is sort like a series of vignettes inspired one by one by different people who have come to visit this dead woman at her funeral, and is then told from her perspective. I think just the premise of this kind of novel seems to […] read full post >>

 Week 4's reading is The Shrouded Women by María Luisa Bombal, a story told in first person by narrator Ana Maria. She switches from reflecting on and recounting her life, to the present looking at her dead body, and seeing the people from through... read full post >>