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I was very excited to read “Death with Interruptions” since I thought the idea of imagining a world without death was so fascinating. This book is obviously fictionalized, but many aspects of it feel very realistic. Death is such a complex idea that is imagined very differently across various individuals, cultures, and religions. For myself […] read full post >>

I was asked to do another blog due to confusion on my last one, so here it is. “The Book of Chameleons” explores at identity and memory through a captivating blend of magical realism and fiction. With the help of a gecko that lived at Felix Ventura’s home, this was made possible. With sensations and […] read full post >>

Hello and welcome to this weeks blog post, this week I read “The book of Chameleons” by José Eduardo Agualusa, and I feel like I need to start this post by saying that I have so many thoughts and this might seem more like a ramble about the novel than a coherent post, there is … read full post >>

Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s novel, “The Book of Chameleons,” is an imaginative novel that explores the themes of identity and memory through the lens of a gecko living in the house of Felix Ventura. The gecko undergoes life with feelings and thoughts adjacent to those of humans, capable of processing human behaviours and interactions. This made […] read full post >>

When I started reading Death with Interruptions, I was thrown off by the lack of proper grammar  The style of the novel largely ignores traditional rules of grammar, discusses punctuation in most sentences and quotations for speech, and reads... read full post >>

When I started reading Death with Interruptions, I was thrown off by the lack of proper grammar  The style of the novel largely ignores traditional rules of grammar, discusses punctuation in most sentences and quotations for speech, and reads... read full post >>

“The Book of Chameleons” explores at identity and memory in post-colonial Angola through a captivating blend of magical realism and historical fiction. José Eduardo Agualusa creates a story full of symbolism and reflection via the protagonist Félix Ventura’s journey of self-discovery. A fascinating and thought-provoking book, the novel explores the power of narratives to alter […] read full post >>

This book was so fun to read. Gecko’s and magic, who would have thought that would make a good combination! Also, finally a book with short chapter!!! There were so many interesting characters in this novel. I found Felix’s job so intriguing. He gave people completely new identities and new background stories, and basically erased […] read full post >>

“Death with Interruptions” has to be the most complicated novel that I have read so far in this course, not because of its content, but its exploration of death. Apart from philosophical works by Kant, Plato, and Aristotle, I have rarely come across novels that centre on philosophical matters, so it took me quite a […] read full post >>

This week’s novel is very different than any other novel as I never imagined that I would read a novel encircling the chronicles of ‘death.’ ‘Death with Interruptions’ is a novel about the first day of the new year when no one dies. Nobody in this world wants to die. so wouldn’t it be great […] read full post >>