‘The Shrouded Woman’, by Maria Luisa Bombal is by far my favourite book we have read yet. I couldn’t say exactly why, but I think one of the key reasons is that the book was written by a woman. I have been reading all my life, and despite my atte…
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Hey everyone! The Shrouded Woman has to be my favorite novel we have read so far. Right from the beginning,…
Although it may be premature since we’re not even half way through the reading list, I personally really enjoyed reading María Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman and can see it being a text that I’ll remember this course by. With the combination of having a faster pace and being a short read, I was able to finish […]
Before I read texts for this class, I read the brief descriptions given for the class in the “Which Texts?” section of our course site to get an idea of what I’m getting myself into. The phrase “I think you’ll like it” was definitely an understatement because I really loved it! When I also saw […]
The Shrouded Woman is a captivating novel. María Luisa Bombal explores some of the themes I am most interested in and she does so through the memories of a dead Latin American woman. The narrative is a juxtaposition of fictional … Continue reading →
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The first thing that struck me about the narrative, The Shrouded Woman was how different it was to the other two texts we have already read. There seemed to be an almost modern twist to the reflective theme that is brought out through the narrator’s voice. The novel being written in first person through the eyes of […]
The first page pulled me in and made me curious to find out what the setting of the reading was….
As a whole, I really enjoyed reading The Shrouded Woman; it never seemed to drag on or feel intractable to read and the prose was really nice as well, with some great quotes and insights. It aligned with my preconceptions of what was archetypally “Romance literature”, with some sense of foreignness (from a Canadian perspective) […]
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Compared to the last two weeks, I enjoyed the reading much more this week and I think that has to do with the fact that this is a short novel which follows more of the traditional way a story is told. This book compared to last week’s did have an actual story which made it […]
Must we die in order to know certain things? Maria Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman, like Proust’s Combray, pertains to…
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