Hi Romance Studiers, After taking a day to think about the book and watch the lecture, I would say that I overall enjoyed Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. I found the way Piglia humanizes these criminals and the surrounding characters very compelling. The main themes that I felt the story kept touching on was masculinity, […]
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Hi Romance Studiers, After taking a day to reflect on what I read in Clarice Lispector’s “The Hour of the Star”, all I could think about was how honest and transparent the narrator/author was the whole time. The book itself is quite short, being only 70ish pages but the characters within the story were so […]
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Hi Romance Studiers, While I was initially put off by Mercè Rodoreda’s writing style in his story “The Time of the Doves”, as I continued to read I found myself more engaged and captivated by the characterization of Natalie. The transition from depicting a woman going through the process of domestication through patriarchal forces to […]
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Hi Romance Studiers, Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” explored the life of Ana Maria through a retrospective lens. The novel used Ana Maria as a narrator, recounting her experiences with the different people in her life as they appeared at her funeral, and the significance they played in her story. I found the story to be […]
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Hi Romance Studiers, It has been a day since I finished reading Roberto Arlt’s novel “Mad Toy” and my overall experience with it was quite pleasurable. I found Silvio’s personal turmoil in most chapters to be quite relatable and the narrative as a whole engaged me throughout the entire reading. While I have been very […]
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