This story is honestly more along the lines of what I was expecting based on the title than some of the others. It was also rather relatable in some ways, regarding trying to balance work, life, family, and more. The young mother tries to balance her role as an author with her own parenting obligation, […]
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“Then I go back to the novel. A vertical novel told horizontally. A story that has to be seen from below, like Manhattan from the subway.” (122) “Or a horizontal novel, told vertically. A horizontal vertigo.” (125) Getting into the book was a bit difficult for me. It reminded me of Andre Breton’s Nadja due to what […]
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli centres on the life of a mother living in Mexico, who is reflecting on the period of her life spent in New York. As a homemaker, she finds her desire for self-expression and creativity constrained by her responsib…
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Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli centres on the life of a mother living in Mexico, who is reflecting on the period of her life spent in New York. As a homemaker, she finds her desire for self-expression and creativity constrained by her responsib…
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I really liked how this final novel seemed to link back to Marcel Proust’s novel (our very first book in the course) with the mechanism of using a train/subway to represent motion wether in time for Proust or in different stories for Luiselli’s novella. I think its interesting the emphasis on the subway being below […]
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“Faces in the Crowd” by Valeria Luiselli was definitely not an ordinary novel. Its complex style of writing made it very hard to find meaning through the novel, which made me kind of sad because this is the last reading and I was expecting a lot from it. Luiselli deftly weaves a fragmented and profound […]
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Hi everyone!! I hope you had a great long weekend 🙂 This weekend was actually my brother’s birthday so I went with him and a few of my friends to Whistler to celebrate. Normally I have read most of our books as a PDF on my ipad, but in honour of this being our LAST […]
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“I can no longer read properly” (118) I feel like this class has changed the way I read. I am not sure how, but I definitely think if you had handed me this book a few months ago, I may have just given up. So, perhaps our professor was correct in his presumption that the […]
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Faces in the Crowd, is the final novel I read for this course and luckily I got to end this semester on a good note. This novel was very interesting to read, to dissect, and to explore. The narrative was fractioned in a rigid fashion which keeps the reader attentive and on their toes in a […]
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I hoped that this weeks book would follow the general trend of the books leading up to it, that it would be more modern and thus easier to grasp. There’s also another way I could look at it, that each book was getting “easier” because I was getting better at reading. I think this weeks … Continue reading Thoughts on Faces in the Crowd
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