I want to begin by mentioning that I found this novel much easier to read than Proust. I was constantly engaged and interested in learning more about the main character. The amount of dialogue and the rate of story progression almost made Mad Toy seem like a playwright. As a result, I feel like the […]
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Hi all! Hope you all had a good read! I picked Nadja as my book for the week because I was quite intrigued about this mysterious woman. I was waiting and waiting for her to appear and it took about a third of the book for her to make her very firs…
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Hi all! Hope you all had a good read! I picked Nadja as my book for the week because I was quite intrigued about this mysterious woman. I was waiting and waiting for her to appear and it took about a third of the book for her to make her very firs…
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I was expecting this book to be mainly about Nadja as the main character, so I was surprised when it came across as more of a reflection on Breton’s identity. I found it almost impossible to get past my hatred of Breton for most of this novel. I found both his actions and the way […]
After reading Marcel’s prousts’s Swann’s Way, Proust was able to explore how memory works not as a clear and logical process, but as something deeply emotional and often triggered by everyday sensations. Much of the reading, I believe focuses on the experiences of the narrator, that shows how the bounderies between the past and present […]
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Okay, so going into Nadja, I really thought things would finally get easier after Proust. Like surely that was the hardest one, right? Wrong. While Nadja was technically easier to get through, I still spent most of the book feeling confused and slightly unwell in a “what am I even reading right now?” kind of […]
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This was definitely a breath of fresh air after reading Proust last week as i was finally reading something i can follow along. While reading Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt, I was struck by how uncomfortable the novel feels. There is nothing clear or reassuring about Silvio’s story. Arlt does not attempt to make Silvio […]
So this was my first real taste of Surrealism, (I think) and I do not think it is quite the writing style fit for me… I definitely think the idea behind Surrealism is cool in how it is meant to blend together reality and thoughts, both conscious and unconscious to create the Surreal world which […]
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Confusing. Figuring things out not by their form but by the convoluted trails of meaning formed by dense sentences, juxtaposing verses, and half-conscious dreams. This book is a forest of question marks. “I am no puzzle-maker, no wizard of chess, no ph…
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At first reading, I was gonna title this “nadja or nada” because the book well – wasn’t too appealing/ frankly boring to me BUT midway through I changed it because… well you know if you chose this book. I’ll be transparent and say I have a lot of mixed thoughts and confusion after reading this, […]
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