A conversation with Gaoheng Zhang
Hellooo once again blog :)) (please know I went a medium bit above the word limit, so this is a longer one, sorry not sorry) This week’s read was Agostino by Alberto Moravia, and I can openly admit I went into this book with the wrong expectations. When I read the blurb in the “choose your […]
feb 1, 2026 If I were to sum up my reading experience on Agostino it would be these images: Even though I listened to the lecture video and the conversation video before reading the book, it could not prepare me for the contents I got hit with at 100km/h. I learnt from the videos that […]
I kind of saw this coming if I am being completely honest, since the professor did give us a head-up in class that the main character would have “mommy issues”. I did NOT estimate for once how intense, and filled with these wide range of thoughts this novel would get. My impression of purely the […]
I’m quite confident in my prediction that the whole class thought of Freud when they opened this book up. The character dynamics undeniably parallel what is spoken about in Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, where famously claims that “while…
I’m quite confident in my prediction that the whole class thought of Freud when they opened this book up. The character dynamics undeniably parallel what is spoken about in Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, where famously claims that “while…
Uncomfortable would be one way to describe how this book made me feel. Right off the bat, the taboo sexual undertones were impossible to ignore. Why do all roads lead to Freud??? The relationship between Agostino and his mother was especially confusing. One moment it felt like maternal concern, and the next I was questioning […]
José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers
I thought I was the only one that thought of Freud when reading this short novel but after reading a few other blog posts, I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one. I’ll start off with my initial thoughts of the book. I like to go into some reads without knowing what to expect […]
This week we read “Agostino” by Alberto Moravia. This book was definitely the easiest to follow out of the books I have read so far. When I began reading, I thought that I would end up liking it more than last weeks reading (The Shrouded Woman) b…
