Trigger Warning: Mentions of death and poverty Cover is painting “Not Too Bad (Blue)” by Artist Euan Roberts “Who hasn’t ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?” Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star, pg 7 (Book analysis begins at paragraph 2. Feel free to skip […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with existence, Existentialism, perception, Philosophy, poverty, Subjectiveness, Suffering
“The Hour of the Star,” to use “Gen Z” terms is a book full of “yapping” but in my opinion good and insightful yapping. With a book of many titles Lispector gives a very unique experience to the reader as she writes about an author writing about a girl, named half way through the book, …
Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with class, coming of age, Conflict, Consumerism, I hate men, poverty, Suffering, tragedy, Womanhood
Hello everyone! Hopefully, you all had a great reading week and enjoyed reading The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda. This novel is a story full of emotion and hurt detailing the protagonist Natalia’s life through the Spanish civil war. The novel is written in a way that folds the emotion into the words […]
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Mercè Rodoreda’s novel, “The Times of the Dove,” was a captivating and page-turning read told through the lens of a resilient and hardworking mother who struggled through the Spanish Civil War. The narrator, Natalia, provided readers with valuable insights into how women lived through the war and the challenges they had to face to provide […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with hope, love, marriage, motherhood, Suffering, Symbolism, war, women
I believe that “The Time of the Doves” by Mercé Rodoreda is a story about how women grow in turbulent times. I must admit that Natalia is a very vivid character. Vividness also implies that she is not perfect; she has some flaws that initially made me dislike her. As someone from the present era, […]
Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with Suffering, Survive, Transformation, women
The novel, Deep Rivers, takes the reader through the lens of life in a municipality in the mountainous interior of Peru through a personal perspective of a middle school student. Most of the inhabitants are Quechua-speaking Indians and mestizos. The novel reflects that although they live in pain and poverty, they are noble in spirit and full […]
Posted in Arguedas, Blogs | Tagged with Indigenous, marginalization, Religious conflict, Suffering
Nada, a book of madness, trauma and grotesqueness that encase its pages. Nada was a book full of drama, conflict and messiness from all characters. Like Bombal’s novel I found it so hard to like anyone, when I started to like someone or feel sorry for them I would quickly realize that they sucked as …
Posted in Blogs, Laforet | Tagged with coming of age, Conflict, Drama, family, gender, Spain, Suffering, war
María Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman felt like experiencing a sad sitcom. I really enjoyed the way her writing felt entertaining and enjoyable, yet she was still able to tackle intense concepts and sad storylines. I think my biggest struggle reading Bombal … Continue reading →
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Nadja, a quicker read for me than Combray was captivating and I found myself having a hard time putting the book down. The dream like state of the surrealism of this book kept me on my toes and forced me during time to rethink what Breton was saying. A lot of the questions Jon asks …
Posted in Blogs, Breton | Tagged with love, madness, Mysterious, nadja, romance, Scandal, Suffering, Surrealism
