Honestly, at the beginning of Faces in the Crowd, I felt a bit confused. The narrative didn’t follow a clear, linear structure, and the shifts between time, space, and perspective made me hard to figure out what is “really happening.” However, as I kept reading, I realized that this confusion is not a meaningless, but […]
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A Review of Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
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Hey blog!! I can’t believe this is the last book I’m reading for this class. Time is so crazy. Anywho, this week’s read was My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. This book follows the very complex friendship between Lila and Lenù, and how their connection progresses as they grow up in a dangerous Naples neighbourhood. […]
Reading this felt like a little bit of a roller coaster, with the extent to which this storyline is fragmented and kinda all over the place.
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli is an interesting story! It follows a woman writing a book and she has two children, a boy and a baby girl. At first, I was confused when all these characters did not have names. It made me wonder if the mai…
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli is an interesting story! It follows a woman writing a book and she has two children, a boy and a baby girl. At first, I was confused when all these characters did not have names. It made me wonder if the mai…
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Sorry if I posted it twice. Not sure if it posted so I’m doing it again. Hellooooo I know the end of the semester is coming up soon but on my little reader app I always rate all these books that we read in class so this one I’m rating a 7/10, a little confusing […]
A horizontal novel, told vertically. A novel that has to be told from the outside in order to be read from within. I thought a lot about what this could have meant. Although I may not have fully deciphered it, I thought this sentence summarised the structure of this novel beautifully. The book made me question a lot of things;…
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I don’t think I’ve felt this confused about a novel since Combray. Truly, opening the book to two full pages of a spiderweb of characters was daunting, to say the least. It reminded me of the time I atte…
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Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I don’t think I’ve felt this confused about a novel since Combray. Truly, opening the book to two full pages of a spiderweb of characters was daunting, to say the least. It reminded me of the time I atte…
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with class, death, growth, language, relationships, women
