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I think my first thought after finishing this story was how strange the situation felt, but also how familiar it seemed in a different way. Nowadays, people gather, have dinner, talk about random things, and often avoid discussing politics, even when the political situation around the world feels chaotic or upside down. The difference is […] read full post >>

is it any different under capitalism? #TheTrenchcoat #NormanManea read full post >>

Honestly… I’m still not entirely sure of what I just read. I’m so lost. The story felt chaotic and overwhelming, but also fascinating. The narration seems to jump around between various voices, descriptions, and conversations so quickly, making it a little hard to follow. But! Like lots of other stories I’ve read in this course, […] read full post >>

IM ALWAYS CONFUSED. Extremely lost once again… but it also seems like everyone in this story is also confused and stressed and repeating themselves so maybe it’s fine.. First of all.. The narration style really threw me off at first. There is SO much repetition. Characters say the same thing over and over but in … Continue reading im not sure.. read full post >>

“I think I'm paranoid read full post >>

This short story left me very confused and disoriented, with not much to grasp onto and characters also losing it, like Ioana gesturing towards hidden conspiracies and death that had existed  So it was relieving to know that the confusion and paranoia and gradual descent into madness is a feature, not a bug, of the […] read full post >>

WOW! I love the storytelling method of this book. It really allows me to know everything that is going to happen before I actually read the actual part of the plot. Great use of foreshadowing!! It may also due to the repetition, where she divided the entire story into fragments and glued them together while […] read full post >>

“Never again shall I..” “From now on I’ll…” “I shall…” “I’ll always have…” (pg. 34). I miss the childlike naivety of knowing everything. While this paragraph seems to be the narrator reflecting on her life, it can also be a manifestation of the young girl determined to be with a man who is majorly, inappropriately, […] read full post >>

Marguerite Duras’s The Lover feels very different from a typical love story. What stood out to me the most while reading was how much the novel focuses on memory rather than simply telling a story about a relationship. The narrator is looking back on events that happened more than fifty years earlier, which makes everything […] read full post >>

While reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras, I was immediately struck by the unusual relationship of the story. The novel describes a relationship between a fifteen year old French girl and an older Chinese man in colonial Vietnam. Because of the large age difference, the story initially reminded me of another well known novel, Lolita […] read full post >>

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To be honest, I think this is one of the books so far that I actually did not particularly enjoy reading. I just could not get over the fact that the age gap between the two characters was 12 years. There was a lingering discomfort and I really could not get myself to immerse myself […] read full post >>

Another book, another terrible love interest. Can we talk about how everyone in this narrator’s life is simply awful? To begin with, she’s fifteen and a half when she meets and begins a sexual relationship with a twenty-seven-year-old man. When her mother discovers that she’s been skipping school so he can pick her up in […] read full post >>

Just finished reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras, I feel so tired. It is like emotionally exhausted. The story line seems like she just writes things when she thinks about it. First of all, I really like how she sees her ravaged face as the on... read full post >>

Just finished reading The Lover by Marguerite Duras, I feel so tired. It is like emotionally exhausted. The story line seems like she just writes things when she thinks about it. First of all, I really like how she sees her ravaged face as the on... read full post >>