This story is honestly more along the lines of what I was expecting based on the title than some of the others. It was also rather relatable in some ways, regarding trying to balance work, life, family, and more. The young mother tries to balance her role as an author with her own parenting obligation, […]
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with Another failed marriage, Faces in the Crowd, freedom, memory
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;…
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with confused, liked, memories, motherhood, Multiplicity, Unhappiness, youth
Do you believe that the way you have progressed in life was a slow, continual growth or more of a “phase/section” based growth?
-LS
Valeria Luiselli’s Faces in the crowd struck a cord for me as a balancing act, finding time between work, family, and more. It isn’t a book which sits still, instead including so many different voices to create the narrative we follow. The young mother in the present aims to navigate her authorship while parenting, with …
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with Authorship, Blending, Convergence, Distortion, Orientation, time, Unfinished
I really enjoyed Faces in the Crowd, however, I found myself more confused than not over the course of my read. The multiple perspective changes (from the woman to Owen), the different locations (i.e. New York City and Mexico City) and the various time periods (for example, the woman’s present day compared to her young […]
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli centres on the life of a mother living in Mexico, who is reflecting on the period of her life spent in New York. As a homemaker, she finds her desire for self-expression and creativity constrained by her responsib…
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with Faces in the Crowd, ghosts
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli centres on the life of a mother living in Mexico, who is reflecting on the period of her life spent in New York. As a homemaker, she finds her desire for self-expression and creativity constrained by her responsib…
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with Faces in the Crowd, ghosts
Reading Faces in the Crowd was quite a mindf*ck at times and I now see why Jon described it as a ‘strange’ on the course website. I’d like to suggest that it also be described as a ‘comedy’ book because of the line: “shrimps are little-dicks” (28). Anyway, as we near the end of the semester, […]
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with #footfetish, booo mosquitos, dolores????, fiction, reality
With our narrator saying “It all began in another city and another life” makes me think of how many people grow up in a place that shapes them, and may end up moving away to a place that suits them better (p. 1). “…in that apartment, in that other city” (p. 5). Choosing an environment […]
Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with depersonalization, fake, identity, reality
“A horizontal novel, told vertically. A novel that has to be told from the outside in order to be read from within” (61).Ok, I wanna start this post just to express how confused I am with this book. Like, genuinely reading this was incredibly difficult…
