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RMST 202 Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II: Modern to Post-Modern
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The Lover – a reflection

Despite this book’s uncomfortable age gap relationship, I really enjoyed reading it. The way Duras writes “The Lover” hooked me the entire time. Her descriptions of the environment, like Saigon, to each complex and rich character, I felt so immersed in this novel. My heart was in this one! I really loved the first sentence […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with age gap, colonies, depression, family, France, race, saigon, social class, The Lover

Another trapped woman

I found this week’s book “The Time of The Doves” by Merce Rodoreda to be very clearly and literally written which made it easy to follow. Although told in first person, I felt that that the writting, because written so literally, lacked emotion that is usually shown through the character. As a potential result of […]

Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with depression, marriage, Natalia, suicide, war

Proust- the now empty man

“Combray” by Marcel Proust is easily a book that can be understood and interpreted in many ways. First I will begin by saying that I did not enjoy the writing structure of novel, the long and extreme descriptive writing made it hard to follow the narrative at some points. In the first part alone, many […]

Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with depression, loneliness, love, mother

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