Valeria Luiselli’s Faces in the crowd struck a cord for me as a balancing act, finding time between work, family, and more. It isn’t a book which sits still, instead including so many different voices to create the narrative we follow. The young mother in the present aims to navigate her authorship while parenting, with …
So my first thoughts after reading this novel… was honestly “confusion”. I did not know what was going on for the first half of the novel, and even after finishing it, I still don’t feel like I fully understand what was going on. Things started to make sense after I watched the lecture video. The […]
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant
Having just landed in Vancouver today, I looked at all the assignments I had due this week and found out this blog post was due yesterday, much to my dismay. Fighting the impending jet lag, I went to purchase “Swann’s Way” by Proust and began my reading. Having no expectations or any context of this […]
Let me just start off by saying that that was not even remotely what I expected. This felt like a fever dream, I have reread sections and still don’t totally know what the point of some of that was. It felt like it was flitting back and forth between things, or going on tangents, and […]
I’m not gonna lie, guys… this was a tough one to get through 🙁 Though after finishing the reading and watching the lecture, I can see how the difficulty and challenge in understanding Proust are part of the Modernism era. The start of Swann’s Way jumped back and forth between narration and memories, which seemed to have no correlation to…
With it being such a long time since I’ve read what I think can be counted as literature, I had hoped the Introduction would give me some clarity and guidance. However, I was intimidated by its very first sentence (╥‸╥) Everything it referenced as being so well known within contemporary Western culture were things I […]
Hi everyone! While reading “Combray”, I realized that the main thing I struggle with when reading older literature is the specific way that they often construct sentences, especially figures of speech. It feels very convoluted to me, and I find it challenging to keep track of where sentences began in the first place. Often, there […]
Honestly, picking up this novel was quite intimidating, especially after not having read one in a while. Right off the bat, I found it difficult to follow, and I ended up rereading sentences in an attempt to figure out what exactly was going on. At some point, though, I realized I was actually making steady […]
