Hi everyone. Welcome to my third blog! This week I read the book “Mad Toy” and have many thoughts to share with you. This book is written by Roberto Arlt. He writes this book from the perspective of a lower-class youth named Silvio. From Silv…
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Hi everyone. Welcome to my third blog! This week I read the book “Mad Toy” and have many thoughts to share with you. This book is written by Roberto Arlt. He writes this book from the perspective of a lower-class youth named Silvio. From Silv…
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with life, Roberto Arlt
This novel was much easier to read than “Combray” and it was also more entertaining. I really enjoyed the structure of this book and how it was broken into distinct parts. I loved seeing the different stages of Silvio’s life. Right from the start I was very intrigued by Silvio’s fascination with bandits and theft. […]
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This week’s reading was much better than the last one in my opinion. I found it easier to follow along but also extremely entertaining. I want to share my favourite paragraph from the reading. “I seemed to see her outside of time and space, on a dark, dry plain,with a sky so blue it was […]
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Roberto Arlt’s novel, “Mad Toy,” was a very fun and interesting read about Silvio’s adventures as a youth as he engages in the quest to become a bandit. I found this text very interesting as it described in great detail the moments in his life as a teen. At first, I was a little confused about the setting and where in fact this text would lead me. As I continued to read about Silvio’s fixation on bandits the text started to get more interesting. One thing I liked about this…read more
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Hey everyone! I’m so excited to do this first blog entry and get started with the course! This week’s reading, Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was genuinely like stepping into a whole new universe and was so different compared to anything I’ve read before. It was tough and there were moments of difficulty reading the text but […]
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Marcel Proust’s “Combray,” the first part of his exceptional work “In Search of Lost Time,” is a testament to a unique stream of consciousness that takes us through different passages of time and a complex web of memory. The immaculate writing style and narrative of the author invite the readers on a journey through the […]
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Using the Spanish Civil War as a narrative foundation, Javier Cercas’s Soldiers of Salamis illustrates the complexities of humanity vividly and touchingly. The novel takes a rather unusual narrative methodology through the point of view of a fictional author and journalist who also happens to be named Javier Cercas. He became interested in investigating a legendary story […]
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For this weeks book, I read The Old Gringo, by Carlos Fuentes. To be honest with you, I found this book to be a little bit confusing, but for a few different reasons. At the beginning of my reading, I found the old gringo’s motivation to be a bit strange; he has come to Mexico […]
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I found “The Old Gringo” by Carlos Fuentes to be about what I was expecting; a somewhat turbulent novel that is set around war. It was a bit confusing to read as the perspective seemed to change frequently, but how the chapters were broken into smaller parts helped organize the text a little more. Throughout … Continue reading Week 9: Fuentes’s “The Old Gringo” →
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