I hated this book. Hated it. I-I don’t even know how to describe my hatred for this book, there are no words to describe my feelings. If I could I would just end my blog post here because this pretty much sums up how I feel, but per the blog post requirements I shall continue. I truly […]
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with confusion, frustration, non-existent endings, what
What a nice and short book this week :)) “The Hour of The Star” by Clairice Lispector was very interesting for me to read. Although at times I did not understand the experimental writing style of the book, it very quickly became the highlight of this reading for me. It felt a lot like the […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with Characters, poverty, story-telling, writing
Hey everyone! I just finished reading “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector which was a great read that explored many different themes we have discussed previously in class. The story revolves around Macabea, a young woman from northeastern Brazil, whose life is explained through the eyes of the narrator, Rodrigo S.M. This format […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with class, desire, Dreams, framing, gender, history, life, narration, sexism
So, let’s talk about “The Hour of the Star,”. It centres around Macabéa. She’s from the northeast of Brazil and moves to Rio de Janeiro. Macabéa’s life is… tough, for a lack of better words. She’’s a bit of a wallflower. She barely makes ends meet with her job as a typist, and is often […]
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I’ll start by pointing out that I felt awful for laughing so hard while reading this book. This book was an unusual metafiction that is possibly my favourite novel to date. The beginning of the story felt like having a conversation with the author, who occasionally experienced identity crises. It was fascinating to read her […]
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Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino was at first one of the most confusing and frusturating reads I’ve ever experienced but after awhile actually become very enjoyable and interesting. After reading the author’s note, it should’ve been my first sign that this writing style was going to be something new and […]
“But who am I to rebuke the guilty? The worst part is that I have to forgive them. We must reach such a nothing that we indifferently love or don’t love the criminal who kills us. But I’m not so sure of myself: I have to ask, though I don’t know who can answer, if […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with death, desire, existence, explosion, humanity, identity, individuality, isolation, life, nothingness, Philosophy
Mid-course Update We’ve had ~7 weeks of readings by now. I feel like this class is the one thing that’s keeping my brain intellectually stimulated because I usually just consume random media outside of school. For example, these past few weeks I’ve been watching the bachelor and it’s been sooo much fun, but I always … Continue reading Hour of the Star: Nonhaving or Having? (March 5)
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