First off, I was so drawn in as Rodoreda’s style focused on the day to day working life and how it became shattered. Natalia’s focus on getting through each day in poverty and starvation really stood out to me as we could understand what exactly she had lost since the war. Her husband, her stability, …
In most ways, the novel contained important commentary on life during a war and the daily struggles that slowly weigh you down, but in others, it felt like I wasn’t taking the right things away from it. For the first part of this book, I almost felt that I was missing something. Her sentence structure […]
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The Time of the Doves, reading about war here felt different in comparison to what I expected or usually read. Instead of focusing on the big picture like the battle scenes or larger consequences of the war, it focuses on the tiny details of everyday life that people usually seem to skip past – loss, […]
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I’m seeing a pattern here with all these novels, the protaganists are just surviving every single god damn time and it’s always so emotionally heavy. The Time of the Doves left me feeling that emotional heaviness. Not because it was confusing or structurally difficult, but because of how quietly devastating it is. Everything happens slowly, […]
Reading this book was a pain. Natalia’s stream of consciousness was worse than Proust- I think I enjoyed proust better. I swear there was like 20 pages of her just describing the bourgeois family’s house. I know the tiny details contribute to the setting and placing the reader, but the book was the slowest 200 […]
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage.First of all, I hope all of you had a restful reading break, and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves. As per usual, I find myself sitting down to write a little before making it to the end of the novel…
Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage.First of all, I hope all of you had a restful reading break, and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves. As per usual, I find myself sitting down to write a little before making it to the end of the novel…
I actually really liked The Time of the Doves, and it has probably been the easiest book for me to read so far. Not because it is light, because it definitely is not, but because the writing flows so naturally. It feels like someone is sitting across from you telling you their life story in […]
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Time of the Doves follows the life of Natalia, an ordinary working-class woman in Barcelona whose personal story unfolds alongside the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. The novel traces her journey from a passive young girl at a festival to her journey through motherhood and marriage, and finally to a widow struggling to survive […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Feminism, motherhood, patriarchy, war
I found The Time of the Doves interesting, and I liked Natalia’s narration throughout. I feel like I am slowly but surely overcoming my bias towards the first-person perspective. In fact, in this novel specifically, I believe that only the first person could have made me so infuriated about Quimet. In this blog post, I […]
