Time of the Doves follows the life of Natalia, an ordinary working-class woman in Barcelona whose personal story unfolds alongside the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. The novel traces her journey from a passive young girl at a festival to her journey through motherhood and marriage, and finally to a widow struggling to survive […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Feminism, motherhood, patriarchy, war
jan 25, 2026 I have a lot of thoughts after reading Maria Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman. I really enjoyed reading this book. Not in the way that I felt good while reading, I felt really sad reading about the lives of the women in the book, but I relate to the narrator as a […]
Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with Feminism, society, The Shrouded Woman, Womanhood
“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” (Alcott, Little Women) A wearying message arrives to Elena: Her friend has vanished. Yet, […]
Posted in Blogs, Ferrante | Tagged with communism, duality, education, Feminism, girlhood, life, poverty, society, Womanhood
Is a girl not allowed to like Coke in peace??? Is a girl not allowed to have some blood on her underwear??? Why did she have to die???? As much as the plot and writing of this book pained me to read, I actually enjoyed it a lot this week, and that is not because […]
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This week’s reading was “The Hour of the Star” by Clarice Lispector, this read was very unique, despite it being a relatively shorter book with only around 70 pages, the story and the characters within the book were very enjoyable to read. Not only that but the themes of feminism and poverty through the eyes […]
I am so excited for this week! I had actually already read this novel when I took a Latin American literature class with Jon last year and since then, I’ve basically forced a lot of my friends and family to read it. It’s one of my favourite books and I…
I am so excited for this week! I had actually already read this novel when I took a Latin American literature class with Jon last year and since then, I’ve basically forced a lot of my friends and family to read it. It’s one of my favourite books and I…
The Shrouded Woman by Maria Luisa Bombal constantly made me think of memories and death, honestly I didn’t enjoy this aspect of the story, let me tell you why. Often I worry about death and ending and spend a lot of my time fearing them, something I am trying to get over. I often worry […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Bombay, death, Fears, Feminism, memory, Mother Nature, nature
Where do we go after we die? I don’t know the answer to this question, but in The Shrouded Woman the narrator is sent into a limbo state between life and death, where her body is unable to move yet can still feel, and her consciousness is able to reflect on and come to terms […]
Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with afterlife, death, Feminism, Spanish, tragedy, week 4
It was painful to read — not only about the difficulty of the book, but also the tragic feeling, maily from the love, I could look through Ana Maria’s life. As I follow Ana Maria’s life, from the “cowardly desertion” of Ricardo, her first love, lunatic jealousy of Silvia towards Maria Griselda, and marriage “out […]
