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My Brilliant Friend, Ferrante

This week’s last and final reading of choice is My Brilliant Friend by Ferrante. This is also the first physical copy of a book I have in this class, and what I have to say is that it’s easier to indulge into a book when you have the actual copy in your hands. With that […]

Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with adolescent, childhood, classism, friendship, violence

Ferrante; These two would not pass the buzzfeed friendship quizzes

This week’s reading of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend honestly left me quite confused and a little bit frustrated. Funnily enough, my brilliant friend actually lent me the physical copy of this book when I told her I was reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with childhood, Envy, friends, friendship, Italy, love, Wealth

‘We Were Girls Together’; A Review of My Brilliant Friend

Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]

Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with book review, book-reviews, books, childhood, family, fiction, friendship, Italy, literature, love, money, socioeconomic status

A World of Difference

A World of Difference

A World of Difference

Posted in Featured Articles and Videos, Lecture Videos | Tagged with betrayal, bureaucracy, childhood, Deleuze, difference, infrapolitics, minor literature, politics

Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language

Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language

Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

Posted in Ferrante lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with Bourdieu, C21st, childhood, class, education, habit, Italy, language, school, taste

A written representation of writers block

I felt that this novel perfectly encapsulated what it is like to write an essay. Even while writing this blogpost I am struggling to pinpoint exactly what I want to say and how I want to say it. I find myself wanting to plan it out from beginning to end, with an intro, middle, and […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with childhood, class, Empathy, gender, identity, isolation, narrative, perspective, poverty

Macabea is the realest bitch I know (rip queen)

Clarice Lispector you would have loved Greta Gerwig I’m so sorry if you didn’t like this book because I’m about to sing its praise. The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector is one of my favourite books so far in this class. For a book so short why did I almost cry at multiple […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with childhood, gender, time

Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing

Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing

Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood

Posted in Lecture Videos, Perec lecture | Tagged with C20th, childhood, France, life, politics, postmodernism, postmodernity, resistance, war, writing

Frenemies (My Brilliant Friend) – Elena Ferrante

I loved this book so much, and I will have to read the next ones. I can’t be left in such a cliffhanger! Of course, this book is an coming of age story, a common theme in the course. It takes us on a journey where we can see how a small neighborhood in Italy […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with childhood, COA, coming of age, Elena Ferrante, family, friends, identity, Italy, jealousy, life, love, My brilliant friend, Personal Growth, poverty, Teens

Halfbreed humans

This book was long. Yet so immersive and so interesting, with its integrated Quechuan words with their translations at the footnote. I found the usage of these untranslated words helped me understand and visualize the culture the author has tried to portray. In addition to the descriptions of towns, the churches, the bell ringing, lighting […]

Posted in Arguedas, Blogs | Tagged with alienation, childhood, Colonialism, culture, injustice, language, Music, postcolonialism, race

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