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My decision to read Mad Toy this week was entirely based on the (perhaps naive) assumption that it might take me back to reading The Outsiders in my eighth-grade English class, when I first crushed on Ponyboy Curtis and learned that teenage rebellion often comes from a lonely, poetic place. I was hoping for that […]
My initial reaction to Breton – not simply as a character, but also an individual since this novel allegedly recounts his true life story – is that he a lost figure. He is unfulfilled by his marriage and by life as a whole. I believe that this disconte…
My initial reaction to Breton – not simply as a character, but also an individual since this novel allegedly recounts his true life story – is that he a lost figure. He is unfulfilled by his marriage and by life as a whole. I believe that this disconte…
I really enjoyed Nadja and how it included photos and drawings. Right at the start of the book, I noticed the question, “Who am I?” can correlate well with the themes of surrealism and the unconscious. Breton follows this question by suggesting parts of him “haunts” others. He clarifies that he doesn’t view himself undead, […]
To me, Nadja is filled with statements that feel like they should be profound. Yet, I only truly comprehend few. Of these statements, the question, “Who am I”, gave me most pause. I reflected on how often I have had to answer this question. I tell interviewers and new friends about my identity without great […]
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 …
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 …
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 […]
Roberto Arlt, Mad Toy
