Honestly, reading this book makes me really uncomfortable. Especially with the relationship dynamic that Agostino has with his mother and how that relationship is convoluted and morphed into an eroticized figure. At some points in the book, I couldn’t …
Honestly, reading this book makes me really uncomfortable. Especially with the relationship dynamic that Agostino has with his mother and how that relationship is convoluted and morphed into an eroticized figure. At some points in the book, I couldn’t …
After finishing this book, all I can say is that it made me so uncomfortable. The weird incestual undertones were so strange. The Oedipus complex truly was strong with this one, and also why would the mom do all that with her son there…I had a big is…
After finishing this book, all I can say is that it made me so uncomfortable. The weird incestual undertones were so strange. The Oedipus complex truly was strong with this one, and also why would the mom do all that with her son there…I had a big is…
I won’t lie, this book was a little strange. Starting it, I thought (naively) that this would be a book about a boy who loved his mother dearly and wanted to tell the world all about her. Ending it, I’m seeing that this is a boy who loved his mother, yes, but loved her in […]
Carmen Laforet wrote this at 23. What. How. Time’s a-ticking for me I suppose. The main character, Andrea, had my heart from the start, her desire for independence, her dreams of Barcelona which are swiftly crushed by her dysfunctional family. At first, it’s her Aunt Angustias that seems the most overbearing, telling her that “in […]
Honestly, I don’t know how I feel. From the first few pages alone, I wasn’t exactly… thrilled. Discomfort while reading this was inevitable to me. That said, I flew through it pretty quickly. Moravia’s imagery was nice, even when it was unsettling. I was just unsure of how to feel about everything. At the start, […]
To start, I think there is so much to unpack in Agostino. I enjoyed how Moravia framed the story as it was easy for me to follow the protagonist’s experience. It was so good that I finished it all in one sitting and actually think it is potentially my favourite out of all that we […]
With the first chapter of the book we are at once conscious of the unspeakable absurdities of life, of a thumping rhythm of isolation carrying its beat across desolate roads, into unsolved conflicts, and through crowds of unknown faces, leading us towa…
María Luisa Bombal, The Shrouded Woman
