Welcome back everyone! This week’s book is Agostino, written by Alberto Moravia. This is one of my most liked books, mainly because the story line captures the essence of the boy’s feelings. Another thing that struck me was the connection between this book, and The Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, because of the resemblance of […]
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This Novella was an interesting ride. It follows an upper class kid who is on vacation with his mother. As the story progresses, we see the protagonist’s changing perception of his mother. I dare to question the author’s perception of women, lower social classes and Freudian theories by the way he shaped the main character’s […]
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Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog. The book for this week is Agostino by Alberto Moravia. I had the pleasure of reading an old and weathered copy from the public library which felt more appropriate compared to the PDFs of previous weeks. I enjoyed this this book and found it rather nostalgic, as it […]
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This novel definitely had some interesting characters, however, it made me so unbelievably angry at men. Agostino is a young boy, despite having the privilege to attend school, he doesn’t know much about life. When he meets the group of boys, he starts to discover things about a part of the world he isn’t part […]
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In Alberto Morovia’s novella Agostino, the main character Agostino is a 13-year-old boy who has an unusual attachment with his mother. Despite he is already 13, he loves his mother with a “naive” heart and adores her as a mother figure. One summer, he and his widow’s mother went on holiday to the Tuscan coast, […]
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Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman is my third book of this course. It is almost February, time really does fly. Anyway. Prof said last week that The Shrouded Woman might be a response to Breton’s Nadja. I can see why he said that. Surrealism wants to unleash the unconcious mind; modernism challenges readers to approach from a different perspective (a […]
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Impressions This week’s reading on Shrouded Woman was written in a poetic style with an imaginary and descriptive expression. The literature was like a fusion between a poem and a novel. The usage of literary devices such as similes and anaphoras, instills a vivid scenery. For example, the word falling is used in the following […]
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In “The Shrouded Woman” by María Luisa Bombal, Ana Maria looks back on the people in her life after her death. I found this book slower and more difficult to get through compared to “Mad Toy” but I enjoyed Bombal’s poetic style of writing.The recurring…
In “The Shrouded Woman” by María Luisa Bombal, Ana Maria looks back on the people in her life after her death. I found this book slower and more difficult to get through compared to “Mad Toy” but I enjoyed Bombal’s poetic style of writing.The recurring…
The Shrouded Woman by Bombal was this weeks required reading, which is sort like a series of vignettes inspired one by one by different people who have come to visit this dead woman at her funeral, and is then told from her perspective. I think just the premise of this kind of novel seems to […]
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