Hi Romance Studiers, After taking a day to think about the book and watch the lecture, I would say that I overall enjoyed Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. I found the way Piglia humanizes these criminals and the surrounding characters very compelling. The main themes that I felt the story kept touching on was masculinity, […]
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The juxtaposition between Agostino’s summer as an Italian boy compared to the crudely honest and undeniable thought processes of a growing boy were evident in this reading. The boy who is so incredibly reliant emotionally on his mother has been catapulted and ridiculed into a no longer sheltered reality when he meets a gang of […]
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