The book started off very suddenly, in media res. Descriptions of characters and details of the heist. Introducing the characters, names and nicknames. It was all very confusing here, I found it hard to keep track of who was who and what exactly was ha…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with capitalism, Homosexuality, Money to Burn
The book started off very suddenly, in media res. Descriptions of characters and details of the heist. Introducing the characters, names and nicknames. It was all very confusing here, I found it hard to keep track of who was who and what exactly was ha…
Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with capitalism, Homosexuality, Money to Burn
This week’s reading really caught my attention as I’m a big fan of thriller movies and books, I was interested to check out Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn” based on the real 1965 bank heist in Buenos Aires. While I expected a classic crime story, Piglia took the novel in some thought-provoking directions I didn’t […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with capitalism, freedom, Heist, Ricardo Piglia
This book reminded me of Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon in the way that it felt like an existential crisis and it definitely left me wondering what was going on at some points. While I am not sure what the author’s intentions were behind this book, there appeared to be some references that had me […]
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with Brazil, capitalism, hell, poverty
