Hi everyone! My name is Muhtadi, and I’m a fifth year studying an interdisciplinary combination of Computer Science, Economics, and Commerce at UBC. As you can probably tell from that combination, literature isn’t exactly the most obvious place you would expect to find me, yet somehow I am back for another RMST course. I took […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
The Book of Chameleons 155
Ricardo Piglia, Money to Burn
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
A conversation with Claudia Dellacasa
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 […]
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 […]
