When I started reading this book, I was lost. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. It really took me a while to understand the mix of dialogue between the author and the story. Even the name Macabea is undefined, written by the author as she is writ…
I’m confused… I’m always confused but I think I’m genuinely lost this time… I think I enjoyed this one… again, I am confused so I’m not sure… I found the narration really interesting, but a bit hard to follow! I felt like I was sitting beside someone who just kept talking and talking and spiralling … Continue reading ??? star
I’m not really sure of what I just read. Is that the point? Maybe. From the very first page, this novel had felt different from anything else I have read in this course. It starts off with a drawn out introduction and I was kind of just thrown off, but also very intrigued? … I […]
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My first reaction to this book was that the narrator was so wishy-washy.
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When reading If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, my strongest impression was that I was constantly moving between different universes. The transitions were sudden and unexpected, almost like shifting through dreams. Each time I became fully immersed in a story, it would abruptly stop and another novel would begin. The experience felt like going […]
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It’s my own desire / it’s my own remorse / Help me to decide / Help me make the / Most of freedom and of pleasure / Nothing ever lasts forever / Everybody wants to rule the world
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Now that I have finished this novel, I noticed that it starts with “all the world began with a yes” (3) and the last word is also “yes” (77). Overall, I thought this book was interesting in that the author also seems to be a character himself. He knows his goal for writing is to […]
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Wow. This was just sad. Are you kidding me? She gets hit by a car and dies after all of that? C’mon Rodrigo, you could’ve come up with a better than that. Macabea was a poor, naive, invisible girl who literally never complained and didn’t feel th…
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Wow. This was just sad. Are you kidding me? She gets hit by a car and dies after all of that? C’mon Rodrigo, you could’ve come up with a better than that. Macabea was a poor, naive, invisible girl who literally never complained and didn’t feel th…
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Macabéa, ridiculed, bullied, deemed irrelevant. She “wasn’t an idiot but she had the pure happiness of idiots” (60). She “got up early in order to have more time to do nothing” (26). She “didn’t know what she was just as a dog doesn’t know it’s dog” (19). She was “a hair in the soup [that] […]
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