I felt too dumb for this book, like I completely and entirely missed the point, confused and certain I was missing something, that I should be able to wade through the language and symbols to find the underlying meaning much better than I was actually able to. The use of names in this book confused […]
Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo
A conversation with Fernanda Negrete
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
A conversation with Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire
A conversation with Farid Laroussi
There’s one common thread in existing discussion about “Combray” that I saw: the book’s difficulty in reading. I agree, it’s a challenging read in the forever long sentences and vivid descriptions of everything and constantly shifting focal points. And as the lecture and conversation video mentions, the story is temporally vague. While there is […]
José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers
José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
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 […]
