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Hi everyone! I’m a 3rd year student currently pursuing a major in Economics and a minor in Commerce. This being nothing related to those fields, I’m taking this course to mainly to fill the literature requirement but at the same time felt like this course would be an interesting time. It’s not every day you […] read full post >>

Why does nothing happen in Combray and why that matters read full post >>

Mad Toy: very fun read, did it in a day. Other blogs and the lecture have alluded to the idea that every chapter is centered around books and knowledge in connection to good society’s system. And related to this, every chapter is structured around Silvio’s failure to obtain or use this knowledge, as mentioned in […] read full post >>

What really stood out to me after reading the book and watching conversation and lecture videos was a point mentioned where Nadja functions as a projection of the narrator's inner disorder or insecurity. It's so evidently put, a void in the narrator's ... read full post >>

What really stood out to me after reading the book and watching conversation and lecture videos was a point mentioned where Nadja functions as a projection of the narrator's inner disorder or insecurity. It's so evidently put, a void in the narrator's ... read full post >>

jan 16, 2026 When I was reading Combray I felt quite confused, I couldn’t seem to grasp any sort of main idea or plot that the writer was going on and on about. My first reaction after reading the first twenty pages or so was that the sentences were very long and many times by […] read full post >>

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 I quite liked reading this book but there was a slight debate in my mind at first as to whether Nadja was a real woman because of how the author portrays her more as a concept rather than literal person. From what I gathered from the book is that... read full post >>

 I quite liked reading this book but there was a slight debate in my mind at first as to whether Nadja was a real woman because of how the author portrays her more as a concept rather than literal person. From what I gathered from the book is that... read full post >>

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Hi, everyone. I would like to share my opinions about the Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt.When I was reading, I did search a little. The Mad Toy was published in 1926, and the author, Roberto Arlt, was 26 years old. When he was 19 years old, he started wr... read full post >>

Hi, everyone. I would like to share my opinions about the Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt.When I was reading, I did search a little. The Mad Toy was published in 1926, and the author, Roberto Arlt, was 26 years old. When he was 19 years old, he started wr... read full post >>

I spent my week reading this book, sometimes on the bus, sometimes lying on the bed. I genuinely could not read this piece all at once, as the events and the plot twists made me feel bad for Silvio. I can hear distant voices, brilliant fireworks, but I am here alone, held down in my […] read full post >>

Hii! I’m Sophia, and I’m a third-year student majoring in art history with a minor in visual art. I’ve always believed that fine arts and literature are very similar, because both are ways for people to express their emotions, experiences, and thoughts to the world. In that sense, writers are also artists. They just use […] read full post >>

On the matter of surrealism, love, and destruction... read full post >>