Resources on Breton and Nadja
Hello everyone, I would like to begin my blog post with discussing the introduction of Combray written by Proust. There are three main posts I found most interesting. To begin, this novel is not his thoughts but his world as a whole, both his voluntary and involuntary memory. It is similar to a biography […]
I really enjoyed this book and thought it was fairly engaging. The book discusses an odd friendship between two women, Lila and Elena, who both grew up together in the same neighbourhood and environment. Their friendship was certainly brilliant, and left readers with much reflection on this odd duo. The book began when Elena received …
Balano seems like a very interesting author with such global fame, it made me beyond excited to begin reading it. As I have read in other blog posts, we all found this one hard to put down! My favourite thing about this course is finding these surprising novels, that move me in a way that […]
The Time of the Doves by Mercé Rodoreda is definitely a heart-wrenching book, and challenging to read at times (well, I mean basically all of the time). There is little to be happy about in this book, and the times that are happy, you can probably count on two hands. Nevertheless, I think that the […]
For this week’s reading, I read The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda. It was an easy read to get lost in. It felt like an emotional rollercoaster as I read the book. The past tense narrative of Natalia made it seem like she was reliving these momen…
For this week’s reading, I read The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda. It was an easy read to get lost in. It felt like an emotional rollercoaster as I read the book. The past tense narrative of Natalia made it seem like she was reliving these momen…
I was passionately engaged while reading The Time of the Doves, mainly for two reasons. First of all, I really enjoyed the narrative of the novel. I felt like the first-person narration of Natalia made the narrative more credible. Normally, first-person narratives are less credible than a “neutral” third-person view, but since this story was […]
Mercè Rodoreda’s The Time of the Doves presents processes of multifaceted change during the Spanish Civil War through the lens of the life of an ordinary Catalan woman named Natalia. Setting in Barcelona, this is the first Catalan novel I have read. It is particularly noteworthy to consider the relevant background of the work. From […]
blog#6 – taming Chaos — The Duality of Cécile was by far the most captivating aspect of Bonjour Tristesse. Françoise Sagan’s ability to portray both a wild, cunning jealousy and guilt-ridden empathy and sorrow is what makes the book such an interesting read. The raw honesty and (at times, hesitant yet inevitable) introspection of Cécile’s own […]
