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It is certainly always a delight to hear female voices in modernist literature, and Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” is no exception. It is rare to see older female protagonists/ narrators depicted in literature, and that reason alone could suffice for … Continue reading → read full post >>

I had to confess the book’s allure after reading about The Shrouded Woman. The growth of female awareness occurred in last century, and this work exemplifies the rarity and specialness of feminist literature during that time period. Maria Luisa Bombal is an exceptional writer. Her writing is both lovely and melancholy. Every point of view, … Continue reading “The Shrouded Woman” → read full post >>

I really enjoyed this novel; I found it beautifully written and thought-provoking. Bombal’s use of magical realism to deliver a tale of a dead woman reminiscing on her life, and the various characters in it, was very touching and got me right in my feels. I admire her manner of subtly offering up bits of […] read full post >>

I think I have read something like a roller coaster. In the contrast to the previous two readings, the dramatic transition in the relationship and emotion of the characters was excessively described, which really caught my attention. In that sense, I enjoyed reading it more than the two we have read. I felt like I […] read full post >>

I really enjoyed this weeks reading. It was different from our previous readings, and although I enjoyed those as well, Bombal’s work was like a breath of fresh air. To me, it was much simpler to understand, there was more of a natural flow, and the concepts were some of the biggest things life revolves […] read full post >>

Maria Luisa Bombal’s text “The Shrouded Woman,” written in 1947, discusses the state between life and death. The main character seems to be recounting her relationships with people in the novel who come and visit her body. The narrator recalls events related and moves on towards peace and moving to the afterlife through this process. […] read full post >>

The Shrouded Woman takes on a super naturalistic approach to death as the main character (Ana Maria) lays deceased, yet she takes her audience through her most important past events in her life. What stuck out to me with this story was the many failed loves Ana Maria had experienced throughout her life. She points …

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I found The Shrouded Woman to be an easier read compared to Paris Peasant and Combray. The writing was descriptive but not overflowing with a lot of vivid details. The scenes also didn’t feel like they suddenly changed without a reason either. It is also my favorite novel so far, though I do wish I […] read full post >>

The novel “The Shrouded Woman” by the Chilean female novelist Maria Luisa Bombal in 1947 is a fiction of femininity illustrated with the method of peripheral modernism. From death to burial, the South American middle-class woman Ana Maria is the narrator of the book, who could still see, hear and observe the people around her […] read full post >>

 This week I read The Shrouded Woman. The article begins with the perspective of a woman after her death. The narrator himself observes different reactions of people around her after her death and recalls the memories of her life. This part is composed. This kind of perspective of keeping one's acquaintances in the corpse is exciting, watching their attitude towards their own death, recalling their characters and making comments on the whole, giving people a sense of sobriety and rationality, as we all know, only we are not involved events, we can make an objective evaluation of them. And the death of the protagonist just happened to put her in this state.

Nothing can highlight the existence of consciousness itself more than consciousness after death. In the beginning, when the protagonist observes the environment with ideology, he is pulled away from reality. He becomes a bystander to himself, and when she begins to recall consciousness, It is like being re-immersed in the environment at that time. When the protagonist recalls her experience of falling in love, we can read the excitement, enthusiasm and shyness of the protagonist and the depression, sadness and depression when she is lost in love. However, although I can feel the protagonist's emotions, the process and details of the birth of these emotions are still very abrupt, as if the protagonist suddenly fell in love. And then this relationship ended so quickly, and the protagonist received a lot of damage; she kept going back and forth in pain and relief and vividly reflected the anxiety and anxiety in love. At the same time, the scenery and weather in the memories also change and show different atmospheres according to her mood, which complements the protagonist's feelings.

When reading this week's article, I feel that the author's description of feelings is more intense than the two previous works. When reading the author's recollections, there is a feeling of reading ordinary novels. She shows the story's development and the psychological and behavioural states of the different protagonists in it. And when she shows these stories, I feel that her self-consciousness is very weak, and she doesn't make it clear that the thinking of the characters in the story is her thinking.

So the question I want to ask this week is: Is the intensity of The Shrouded Woman's emotional expression somewhat more robust or weaker than the text in our previous course assignments?

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