While reading “The Shrouded Woman” I found some parts (especially in the middle of the novel)to be rather confusing, I found that there were way too many characters to remember and some names were very similar (I think it might have been because I read…
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While reading “The Shrouded Woman” I found some parts (especially in the middle of the novel)to be rather confusing, I found that there were way too many characters to remember and some names were very similar (I think it might have been because I read…
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Out of all the readings so far, “The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal has to be my favourite. The narration was done in a way that was filled with great emotion and intriguing descriptions of both scenery and actions. You could feel Ana Maria’s pain from the grave through the way she reminisces on her […]
Bombal’s Shrouded Women is a novel narrated by a dead woman, Ana Maria, who is also the main character of this story. The story begins with Ana Maria depicting the place where she is lying in and the people who are here to see her. Slowly, she starts to recount the memories from when she […]
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This book like many others, has undoubtedly been my favourite read so far. I appreciated the lighthearted feel to the book even though the themes tend to be on the deeper side. The story follows a women and her journey to find love and break free from the norms that bound women in a society […]
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This week’s reading “The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal was one that I found quite captivating and enjoyable. One of the themes in this reading that I found most captivating was the theme of regret, and how regret and death interact with the souls of dying people. Bombal described Ana-Maria’s grievances with the people […]
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This book is definitely my favourite one yet. “The Shrouded Woman” is ultimately a story of revolt, a violation of social norms and patriarchal restrictions. Bombal portrays a woman who defies societal expectations about her role through the character of Ana María. Rather, Ana María challenges the confining grip of custom and expectation by asserting […]
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Hi again! I hope you are all doing well. This week, I read “The Shrouded Women.” I would say it has been my favourite out of the other books we have discussed. Maria Luisa Bombal does a great job of capturing the story and the emotions of the main character, Ana María. I especially found […]
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In Bombal’s second novel, La amortajada (The Shrouded Woman), the recently deceased protagonist, while attending her own funeral, reflects on her life’s memories. The shrouded woman was a wonderful yet painful narrative of a woman reflecting on her life after death and watching over people she cared about. Several passages of this novel sent shivers […]
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The Shrouded Woman is a book centered on the perspective of a recently deceased, shrouded woman who has not yet been buried, and depicts the spiritual conversations, memories, and inquiries or questions that arise between this woman, lying on her hearse, and those who come to offer their condolences. Leaving the novel behind and entering […]
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