José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers
Posted in Agualusa lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with Angola, C21st, doubles, Dreams, Freud, multitude, repetition, unity, utopia
José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
Posted in Agualusa lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with Angola, animals, betrayal, Borges, C21st, doubles, history, illusion, memory, repetition, violence, war
Hey everyone! This week we’re going to be discussing “The Trenchcoat” by Norman Manea and let me just say personally I really liked the novella/short story. I liked the allegory and mystery of it all sort of like a murder mystery dinner party (my favourite plot line) but with no murder? It was interesting that […]
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Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo
Posted in Fuentes lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with C20th, history, Marx, memory, Mexico, politics, repetition, revolution, war, writing
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
A conversation with Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
Posted in Conversation Videos, Perec videos | Tagged with constraint, detail, France, freedom, memory, order, repetition, rules, totalitarianism, utopia, war
“the day burns hours, minutes, seconds” (177) Similar to the “day,” I found that this book seemed to burn hours, minutes, and seconds of my time whenever I went to pick it up. Each time I just couldn’t put it down! When comparing this piece to Combray and Nadja, the three are almost not even […]
Posted in Blogs, Bombal | Tagged with remember, repetition, Shrouded Woman
This week we were tasked with reading the Soldier of Salamis; I don’t mean to sound harsh, but I just did not enjoy this book. It is a book that disinterested me, was too long, and was kind of confusing at times. I hate to be like this, and will try my best to write […]
Posted in Blogs, Bolaño, Cercas | Tagged with Civil war, memory, narrator, Relationship, repetition, soldier of salamis, Spain, true or false, truth, Weekly Book Blog, writing
Hey Everyone, Writing this week’s blog post has been the absolute worst for me. To start off, I read and completed my blog post for next week by accident. Then, WordPress stopped working. Anyways, I found this reading really interesting. I finished it in about 3 separate sittings (with some short breaks on my phone), […]
Posted in Blogs, Cercas | Tagged with ethics, literature, repetition, romancestudies, romanceworld, romanticliterature, ubc, writing style