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The adventure ends…

I can’t believe that the term’s almost over!! It felt like just last week that we were all in the big room in IKB, talking about what literature is ˙◠˙ This has been one of the most unique classes I’ve taken, and I think it’s safe to say that my reading journal will be very […]

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FINAL BLOG POST

We made it to the final blog post! A bitter sweet feeling indeed, although I don’t usually enjoy doing homework, the blog posts hold a special place in my heart as it actually allowed me to be transparent about what I read whilst reinforcing the concepts learned in the literature. Being able to open up […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with book-review, books, fiction, literature, reading, Uncategorized

Book 11: Train Station Disorientation in “Faces in the Crowd”

“The subway, its multiple stops, its breakdowns, its sudden accelera- tions, its dark zones, could function as the space-time scheme for this other novel.” (58) This book is a difficult, obscure read. Even after going through it a few times to write this post, I still struggled with distinguishing who wrote which section Unlike some […]

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Page 155

Page 155

The Book of Chameleons 155

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Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money

Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money

Ricardo Piglia, Money to Burn

Posted in Lecture Videos, Piglia lecture | Tagged with Argentina, C20th, crime, genre, money, reading, sexuality, violence

Calvino and the Ends of Discourse

Calvino and the Ends of Discourse

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

Posted in Calvino lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with beginnings, C20th, Deleuze, discourse, endings, gender, Italy, materiality, postmodernism, reading, repetition

On Italo Calvino

On Italo Calvino

A conversation with Claudia Dellacasa

Posted in Calvino videos, Conversation Videos | Tagged with body, C20th, eroticism, exoticism, Italy, Japan, metafiction, nature, reading

Calvino – what does being a reader mean??

Wow, reading this was different from anything I had experienced before! I don’t think I’ve ever been so directly addressed in a book (except maybe in rambly chapters written by third graders on Wattpad a decade ago (ᵕ—ᴗ—)) and while it was slightly disorienting at first, it also felt thrilling. It made me get invested […]

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this book play too much…

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler feels like a prank. It’s interesting in the sense that the book never really lets you settle. You’re placed in the shoes of “the Reader,” literally you, trying to read a novel, only for it to get interrupted over and over again. Just when you start getting invested […]

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Book 7: Reading “If on a winter’s night a traveler”… Again

“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read,” a third reader says, “but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it I who keep changing and seeing new things of which I was not previously aware? Or is reading a construction […]

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