Hi Romance Studiers, Going into reading “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras, I was warned by my girlfriend who had read it during her IB English class in high school. My takeaway a third into the book was “I cannot believe they made highschoolers read and analyze this text” and it did not get better. Even […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 1980s, Did Not Enjoy, do not recommend, uncomfortable
Hi Romance Studiers, Throughout my reading of Alberto Moravia’s Agostino, I could not decide whether I enjoyed the text or not. On one hand, I thought it was a cool exploration of how socio-economic class affects the socialization agents that develop a child’s outlook on the world, as well as how the different boys view […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 1940s, Did Not Enjoy, Freud's Best Friend, LARPing
Hi Romance Studiers, After reading Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way”, part 1 “Combray”, I found myself lost and dissatisfied. Conceptually, the idea of building a world through the lens of a child, and as they grow up and realize the beauty of the world they live in, so does the reader, was very interesting. The execution […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 1920s, Did Not Enjoy, Marathon Sentences
