“The Hour of the Star,” to use “Gen Z” terms is a book full of “yapping” but in my opinion good and insightful yapping. With a book of many titles Lispector gives a very unique experience to the reader as she writes about an author writing about a girl, named half way through the book, …
Tuesday, February 27th This week’s read was quite fascinating in my opinion. I found myself thoroughly intrigued by Natalia’s character and her voice throughout the novel. Right from the start Natalia portrays this image of naïveté and innocence, with her white dress and “shoes like two drops of milk”. Rodoreda depicts this woman in her […]
This week’s reading was another interesting one. Now that it is halfway through this marathon of reading, I’m finding how I’m able to compare how differently each of the books are written and the effect this has on the reader. Usually, in my spare time…
This week’s reading was another interesting one. Now that it is halfway through this marathon of reading, I’m finding how I’m able to compare how differently each of the books are written and the effect this has on the reader. Usually, in my spare time…
José María Arguedas, Deep Rivers
Nada, a book of madness, trauma and grotesqueness that encase its pages. Nada was a book full of drama, conflict and messiness from all characters. Like Bombal’s novel I found it so hard to like anyone, when I started to like someone or feel sorry for them I would quickly realize that they sucked as …
Impressions This week’s reading on Shrouded Woman was written in a poetic style with an imaginary and descriptive expression. The literature was like a fusion between a poem and a novel. The usage of literary devices such as similes and anaphoras, instills a vivid scenery. For example, the word falling is used in the following […]
War seems to be the common theme the last couple of weeks and it is no different as this story takes place during the Angolan Civil War. However, this book tries to find the best out of this horrible situation by creating a dreamlike landscape and beautiful imagery to make this situation a little tolerable […]
Reading through Amulet definitely pulled me in many different directions than I expected! From the beginning it introduced fear and tension, then it quickly delved into a series of memories from Auxilio’s life and the different friends and people she encountered as she hid in the bathroom stalls of her university. It was different from […]
In Amulet, we find a Chilean author writing about a fictional Uruguayan protagonist based in Mexico. I felt that this…
