The Shrouded Woman is a book written by Maria Luisa Bombal. It was a book that was a little difficult to understand at first, but as it started progressing, it got better to read. The author’s style of writing is very different from what I have read before, because it was much more perceptive. This […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with 20th century, death, experiences, past, RMST 202 Week 4
This week’s reading, Combray by Marcel Proust, definitely challenged me. The reading was a lot different than my usual weekly school readings. It was filled with intricate details and imaginative meanings but yet I still found it hard to pay attention. Just a few pages into the reading I found myself confused about the setting […]
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with childhood, dream, memory, past
The opening of the novel, wherein the narrator and self-proclaimed “mother of poetry,” Auxilio Lacouture, claims this novel is going to be a horror story but it won’t seem like it from her perspective could not have held more true. As a reader, it was so easy to get distracted by the lifestyles of Auxilio […]
Posted in Blogs, Bolaño | Tagged with future, memory, past, Poetry
The first thing I want to recognize is something I said in a discussion group during my class last week. It was along the lines of whether these texts (that I’ve chosen) will all follow the theme of memories, past experience, or just past tense writing in general. This is the fourth book to do […]
Posted in Blogs, Laforet | Tagged with friendship, love interests, past, rich
