This short story left me very confused and disoriented, with not much to grasp onto and characters also losing it, like Ioana gesturing towards hidden conspiracies and death that had existed So it was relieving to know that the confusion and paranoia and gradual descent into madness is a feature, not a bug, of the […]
Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse
Joseph Zobel, Black Shack Alley
Reading “Deep Rivers” was a challenge for me, possibly the most difficult read so far. I still liked it a lot. But Ernesto was impenetrable to me; he didn’t fit into my preconceived notions of what a protagonist should be like or like. Especially compared to previous books in this course I read like the […]
Roberto Arlt, Mad Toy
Hi everyone 🙂 My name is Fatima Mudassar, and I’m a 3rd-year Cognitive Systems major with a minor in Economics here at UBC. I’m also an international student from Lahore, Pakistan, and I can speak 3 languages fluently; Urdu, Punjabi, and English. I made the decision to take RMST 202 because I’m really curious about […]
Hello RMST 202, my name is Sarah and I’m a fourth year psychology major here at UBC; however, I will be doing 5 years since I love being a student! While I’m taking this course for a literature requirement, I chose this course over others because I heard how fun the content is to read […]
A conversation with Tim Beasley-Murray
images of romance language connections
