This week I read, Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago. To be honest, this was a very difficult read for me. While reading this book, I realized that I have actually never read a philosophical book before, so this book was very tough. I think the …
This week I read, Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago. To be honest, this was a very difficult read for me. While reading this book, I realized that I have actually never read a philosophical book before, so this book was very tough. I think the …
showing how fragile our system is. One thing goes awry, and everything comes toppling down. Albeit, no one dying anymore is not something we could have planned for, but it is something the government and people now have to figure out. Saramago questions our societal systems by exploring their improbability. As you may have guessed, […]
Let me to get right into this, the book seemed to be split into two parts, with separate protagonists in each: society in the first section and death in the second. The author uses long, twisted sentences without punctuation (hence, the title). Reading this was a little difficult for me at times. Because of the […]
Hey guys, I decided to read “Death With Interruptions” by José Saramago this week. I chose this book after reading the blurb and found it really interesting. Can you imagine a day when no one dies? I immediately thought about how if this happened in real life, would it really affect us and if so […]
“Death with Interruptions” by José Saramago is the kind of fiction book I enjoy. I’m typically not a fiction lover, but I think the amount of philosophy and political aspects in this book makes me so curious that I somehow remain focused on the book. Even when it takes a while for a reader to […]
Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H.
As I write this, I’m listening to “She’s a Mystery to Me” by Roy Orbison, and in some way, I think the lyrics of this song relate to the musings expressed in “The Shrouded Woman” and talked about in the lecture – that in this novel, there is something about the female characters that cannot […]
It was refreshing to read a book that discusses many experiences and struggles that women face from a female author’s perspective, especially after reading “Nadja” by Andre Breton who talks about a woman’s suffering from his male point of view. I started this reading with the expectation that it would retaliate against Breton’s questionable perspective […]
Introspection, dread and existentialism: these were the primary themes which came to mind while reading Lispector’s “The Passion According to G.H.” The story itself is a strange piece of fiction. It reads more as a frenzied confession from a madwoman—or if not mad, recently informed of life’s secrets through some traumatic event and left unable […]
