Painting: A Face in the Crowd by Holly Warburton There are two types of people: those who just live and those who design their lives Pg. 12 Hello, lovely people! How are we holding up during this last stretch of the semester! This week’s novel, and final novel of the whole course, is Valeria Luisella’s […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with Convergence, fiction, Fragments, memories, motherhood, narratives, reality, Shrimp
As the last reading for this course, I made sure to take notes and reflect on the text as heavily as possible. I wanted to bring something more significant from it than a blog post, and I feel I did. In this novella written by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, we meet our protagonist, Daniel Benchimol, who […]
Posted in Agualusa, Blogs | Tagged with disappointment, hyperrealism, monologue, narratives, power, promise, Surrealism, the real, toxicity
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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Moravia | Tagged with dynamics, masculinity, narratives, toxicity
