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The Big End of Semester Wrap Up – Goodbye:(

It’s here! The last blog post of the semester! Thank you, dear reader, for reading all of my little blog posts. I hope you enjoyed my analysis and shared some similar thoughts, or thought differently about sections after reading my thoughts. I am honestly going to miss this blog, it was very fun to design […]

Posted in Blogs, Conclusion | Tagged with book, book review, book-blog, book-reviews, books, class, girlhood, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, love, memory, misogyny, Money to Burn, My brilliant friend, narrative, novel, reading, the end, Time of the Doves

I’d have a parasocial relationship with a hot poet too

Luiselli’s novel navigates the trials and tribulations of keeping her creativity alive while performing her motherly duties. She also explores just how blurred the lines between reality and imagination can become when one becomes obsessed with the…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with motherhood, narrative, parasocial

I’d have a parasocial relationship with a hot poet too

Luiselli’s novel navigates the trials and tribulations of keeping her creativity alive while performing her motherly duties. She also explores just how blurred the lines between reality and imagination can become when one becomes obsessed with the…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with motherhood, narrative, parasocial

moby has a shrimp dick

Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli depicts a woman living in Mexico City with her husband and children, writing a novel about a woman living in New York City. It is not clear whether this story is the past life of the writer, or if these memories are just fictitious creations. Just like the […]

Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with class, family, fiction, gender, identity, memory, narrative, Realism, relationships, sexuality, Surrealism, temporality, time, truth, writing

Faces in the Crowd: possibly four books for the price of one!

I can’t believe this was the last book of the class! Honestly, I didn’t enjoy reading it that much. I felt confused and disoriented. It wasn’t until the day after I finished it and watched the lecture video and read other people’s blog posts that I realized I actually did like it. This book is […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with coachroaches, Faces in the Crowd, ghosts, literature, Mexico, narrative, nyc, owens, philidelphia, subway, translation

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A MIND WITH AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PAST?! Where’s ARIANA GRANDE? someone write an album on talking geckos and magical past selling men instead of toxic ex-husbands :P

Hey everyone! Im super excited to discuss this week’s reading, “The Book of Chameleons” by Jose Eduardo Agualusa!  Immediately my mind goes to the movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. With Ariana Grande’s album coming out and everything, I have been thinking about that movie a lot and how interesting the concept is. A […]

Posted in Agualusa, Blogs | Tagged with animals, desire, identity, life, memory, narrative, reality, relationships

how many letters in CRIMINAL.. ATEEEEEE HOMOSEXUAL CRIMINALS YASSSSSSSSSS

Hey everyone! I am super excited to discuss this week’s reading because it is a CRIME STORYYY!! I personally love crime or murder mystery stories; the whole element of mystery and suspense is so engaging for me so this was definitely a great read.  I think there is SO MUCH to talk about when it […]

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with class, framing, history, life, narrative, sexuality, story, time, violence

YES MURDER MYSTERY DINNER PARTY (except no one is getting murdered….. maybe? who knows? what if THERES A BOMB IN THE FUCKING TRENCHCOAT. YOU NEVER KNOW. AHHHHHHHHHH)

Hey everyone! This week we’re going to be discussing “The Trenchcoat” by Norman Manea and let me just say personally I really liked the novella/short story. I liked the allegory and mystery of it all sort of like a murder mystery dinner party (my favourite plot line) but with no murder? It was interesting that […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with betrayal, class, history, narrative, politics, power, repetition, story, truth

A written representation of writers block

I felt that this novel perfectly encapsulated what it is like to write an essay. Even while writing this blogpost I am struggling to pinpoint exactly what I want to say and how I want to say it. I find myself wanting to plan it out from beginning to end, with an intro, middle, and […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with childhood, class, Empathy, gender, identity, isolation, narrative, perspective, poverty

Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and Ethics

Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and Ethics

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

Posted in Lecture Videos, Lispector lecture | Tagged with Brazil, C20th, ethics, gender, language, narrative, poverty, writing

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