Reading Hour of the Star kind of made me wish that I, too, was hit by a Mercedes. The narrator’s incessant yapping in the beginning made it really hard for me to get into this book, which is honestly kind of an achievement given how short this story is. And then, when we finally get […]
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THE WRITER: The desire for transcendence is itself a transcendent aspect of human nature, because it entails an already-present awareness of the transcendent, and a recognition of the possibility of becoming transcendent. The writer, Rodrigo, desires f…
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“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read,” a third reader says, “but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it I who keep changing and seeing new things of which I was not previously aware? Or is reading a construction […]
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It is scarily interesting how much Natalia’s nickname Colometa foreshadowed the way her life would turn out to be and how her first husband, Quimet would later treat her. Pigeons, being wild animals that became domesticated for human usage align much with what the protagonist experiences after marrying Quimet. She is formed into the ideal wife and forced to care…
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HELLOOOOOO… So, I finished The Time of the Doves (even tho I was in a whole other country), and honestly, I’m still trying to figure out how a book can be both incredibly simple and emotionally chaotic at the same time. Half the time I felt like I was eavesdropping on someone mumbling to themselves […]
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I felt that the narration of this text was very closely tied to Natalia’s inner thoughts.
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I enjoyed reading this week’s book by Merce Rodoreda thoroughly. The protagonist, Natalia is challenged constantly throughout this book right from the beginning when she is almost forcefully scooped up into a relationship with Quimet, who in my opinion is one of the most unpleasant characters as of yet, right behind Saro the paedo from […]
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The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda is such an interesting read and is honestly one of my fav reads so far throughout this course! The book centres around Natalia’s hardships of poverty and despair. This is evident through the quote in the pr…
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The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda is such an interesting read and is honestly one of my fav reads so far throughout this course! The book centres around Natalia’s hardships of poverty and despair. This is evident through the quote in the pr…
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I don’t know where to start. So I’ll probably start this blog by talking about how majority of the books I’ve read for this course involve a narrator who feels trapped or powerless ( I’m sure we’ve all read different books because we have different contracts). Okay maybe not all of them but atleast the […]
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