María Luisa Bombal, The Shrouded Woman
A conversation with Naomi Lindstrom
Questions on The Shrouded Woman
I feel like every book I’ve picked up so far in this class has just left me confused. I thought books from the 1900s were easier to understand than the ones I read in RMST201, but these books might be more confusing??? Anyway, The Shrouded Woman felt like a novel that exists in this strange […]
This week’s reading, The Shrouded Woman by María Luisa Bombal, felt very different from the texts we’ve read so far in this course. Compared to Proust especially, I found this much easier to read and follow. Even though the novel deals with heavy themes like death, regret, and unhappy relationships, the writing itself feels fluid […]
I found this weeks short book by Maria Luisa Bombal certainly to be the most enjoyable one for myself following Breton and Proust. The text felt much more fluid and readable than the previous weeks as it did not have me constantly rereading parts of it to try and figure out what was going on. […]
First things first, this was so much easier to read than Proust’s Combray. This would be a type of book I would pick up when I am in a sad/depressed mood. That made it a little difficult to read because … Continue reading
The first thing I noticed was how pretty the writing was ٩(✧ᗜ✧)و the way the words flowed through each passage created such a fantastical image, and each description was really beautiful! I also loved the repetition of the phrase “the day burns hours, minutes, seconds.” It not only felt like a nice transition between memories, […]
In my previous blog I wrote about how I struggled with Proust, since it was the first time I was reading in around half a decade. I am happy to say this was much better. The switch from watching movies and TV shows to reading books has been tricky because since there’s no visual aid […]
I went into this book expecting it to feel devastating, depressing, and sob-inducing based solely on what I knew about the premise, but I actually gained a more positive perspective on a lot of things in my life. On friendship: “Friendship, a sentiment in which one never knows solitude as one does in love. Friendship, […]
