This book like many others, has undoubtedly been my favourite read so far. I appreciated the lighthearted feel to the book even though the themes tend to be on the deeper side. The story follows a women and her journey to find love and break free from the norms that bound women in a society […]
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The Shrouded Woman by Maria Luisa Bombal constantly made me think of memories and death, honestly I didn’t enjoy this aspect of the story, let me tell you why. Often I worry about death and ending and spend a lot of my time fearing them, something I am trying to get over. I often worry […]
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Hi everyone! This week we all read “The Shrouded Woman” written by Luisa Maria Bombal. I found this novel difficult and slow to start and understand but it was a very interesting read. It is written from a very obscure perspective in which Ana Maria, the main character, is in a sort of purgatory. […]
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Maria Luisa Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” revolves around the life of Ana María, a woman from an aristocratic Chilean family. The novel is structured around Ana María’s funeral, where she narrates her story from within the coffin, providing insight into her thoughts, emotions, and experiences. While Ana María is physically dead, her soul and awareness […]
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‘The Shrouded Woman’ by María Luisa Bombal was a very unique and interesting read for me since it is done in a style that I’ve never seen in a book, where the main character starts off dead and tells the story of her past experiences and memories of different things and people. One interesting thing […]
The themes I thought of after reading Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” were love, death, memory, and jealousy. I also thought that the point of view of the narrator was very interesting as it looks through her memories in a unique way. I found myself gett…
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The themes I thought of after reading Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” were love, death, memory, and jealousy. I also thought that the point of view of the narrator was very interesting as it looks through her memories in a unique way. I found myself gett…
Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with death, jealousy, love, memory
★ Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide, assault, and death. “Why must a woman’s nature be such that a man has always to be the pivot of her life?” Bomal, pg. 226 María Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman absolutely broke my heart. When I had finished the book, I sat down for a second to just […]
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I enjoyed reading this book because, for the most part, it was the first I’ve read about a main character who was deceased and essentially reflected on her life. This book’s interesting aspect, in my opinion, is that we don’t lose sight of our main character’s perspective even after their death. Given that I knew […]
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I believe “The Shrouded Woman” is a very captivating book. I must admit that I was completely drawn into this world shortly after starting to read it. The beginning of the novel is very engaging, even though Ana María is already deceased and lying in a coffin, she can still hear and see those mourning […]
