“Nada” by Carmen Laforet had me questioning if this was the craziest, yet oddly realistic, family I have ever read about. Aside from all the comments about the women in the book acting like animals, from the grandmother or men, I still could not understand why Andrea bothered to stay so long in this family […]
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Okay, let me just say this up front: There isn’t a single universe where Andrea’s family would win that. For context, “Nada” is a coming-of-age novel written by Carmen Laforet about an orphan who moves to Barcelona post-Spanish Civil War in order to attend university. She moves into her formerly-wealthy-but-now-poor grandmother’s apartment with several relatives: […]
The Shrouded Woman by Bombal was this weeks required reading, which is sort like a series of vignettes inspired one by one by different people who have come to visit this dead woman at her funeral, and is then told from her perspective. I think just the premise of this kind of novel seems to […]
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Hey everyone! I’m really excited to talk about this week’s reading, “The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal. Firstly, the themes that were covered in general were super intriguing to me. I love thinking about life, love and the afterlife on my own time and am generally a fairly existential thinker so I personally really […]
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This book for me was the best one yet. I swear being able to fully understand what I am reading makes it all the more enjoyable. In the lecture the professor talked about the power of fiction. I found it interesting that although this is obviously a work of fiction, it never felt as though […]
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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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Boy this read was a dramatic one but one I did enjoy even if I got quite confused. Despite my confusion due to the back and forth between many characters in Ana Maria’s life I found this book profoundly deep, seeing glimpses of her life through the interactions she has with other people. I believe …
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The Shrouded Woman draws in readers with its poetic, symbolically rich narrative, which can present an initial struggle to understand but eventually transforms into a beautiful journey, particularly when read in Spanish, where the unique characteristics of the language offer another layer to the story. Love Journey Ana Maria’s romantic journey unfolds as a touching […]
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“The Shrouded Woman” by Maria Luisa Bombal is a beautiful and somewhat tragic unfolding of Ana Maria’s life. The concept of this book is that Ana Maria is now dead and being prepared for her sending off from this life. Since Ana Maria is dead, she is now finally revisiting her entire life and delving […]
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I really really enjoyed this reading. I think it’s my favourite so far. I loved how much information was packed into the 60 pages, and how much we learned about the shrouded woman, Ana Maria’s life. The more I read, the more I realized it wasn’t just about the life of Ana Maria but was […]
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