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What struck me the most in this book is how often Bombal shifts the narrative perspective. At first, I thought it was just a stylistic experiment, but the more I read, the more it felt like something much deeper. The constant switching between first person and third person narration doesn’t feel random at all. Instead, […] read full post >>

What a book! Within just the first few pages, I felt strangely emotional about Ana María and her life.. which caught me completely off guard. It almost felt.. relatable? It’s given me lots to think about, that’s for sure. There is something so incredibly intimate about the way she reflects on her life from the […] read full post >>

Wow. And I thought I held grudge. The Shrouded Woman is this breath-taking story about a woman on her death bed. She revisits different parts of her life, sifting through memories as various family members and friends say their farewells. I don’t know what to say. It was just so beautiful. Let’s start when she […] read full post >>

 I quite enjoyed this reading, it was a point of view that I’ve never read a book from before. This short novel touched on an issue of gender and agency. How a woman is always the focus of others in terms of her beauty and appearance, even when sh... read full post >>

 I quite enjoyed this reading, it was a point of view that I’ve never read a book from before. This short novel touched on an issue of gender and agency. How a woman is always the focus of others in terms of her beauty and appearance, even when sh... read full post >>

Luisa Maria Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman feels like the kind of book that sneaks up on you. In the same fashion as Proust, nothing explodes and no dramatic plot twist comes and sweeps you off of your feet. Instead, a woman lies dead, wrapped in white, and only finally does she get to tell the […] read full post >>

Right from the beginning that is a sense of significance in the seemingly trivial, like the falling of rain, and a glimmer of existential beauty to be found in repetition, exhaustion, and freedom from logic. If inexplicitness was a literary principle, ... read full post >>

My first impression of “A Shrouded Woman” was that the many perspectives were really cool: shifting from her POV to the other funeralgoers and even times when it was like she “talked” to others’ narration, like the Father. But the weirdest one is still her own. From what I’ve read, most forms of the post-death […] read full post >>

Hi, everyone! After finishing the book The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, a question came to my mind – why does Ana Maria care so much about her image after death? She cares about her embroidered sheets, perfumed with lavender. She also fo... read full post >>

Hi, everyone! After finishing the book The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, a question came to my mind – why does Ana Maria care so much about her image after death? She cares about her embroidered sheets, perfumed with lavender. She also fo... read full post >>

The book we read this week is The Shrouded Woman, written by Maria Luisa Bombal. I used to think death is the end, that everything stops when a person dies. But from this book, I feel how an individual is constructed through a network of emotional bonds that may or may not vanish after they […] read full post >>

I’ll start with saying that reading this was way better than the last book which genuinely made me question if I was dumb. André starts the book by asking, “who am I?” Honestly, mood. But instead of taking a nap or getting a hobby, he decides that the only way to find himself is to […] read full post >>

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl. read full post >>

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If I’m being 100 percent honest, this book was a harder read than I expected. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t sat down and read a proper book in a while or if the pacing was extremely slow. I found myself constantly constantly staring at the same paragraph for 15 minutes, restarting it […] read full post >>