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Week 10 – Bolano, Amulet

Another book with a stream of consciousness about memories … I am sensing a theme here.  As Auxilio hides in the university bathroom for 12 days, she reflects on different memories and experiences, transporting the reader to a different world than the reality of her sitting in the bathroom stall as the army invades the […]

Posted in Blogs, Bolaño | Tagged with horror, latin america, Mexico, time, week10

blog#9 – the Object of Anxiety —

blog#9 – the Object of Anxiety — I’ll admit that I am not very good at remembering character’s names when reading, especially during the part I have to read in dialogue. But in this book, many characters have a kind of tic or catchphrase that they say which I thought was really interesting. Whatever their […]

Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with anxiety, Compulsory Happiness, norman manea, object, perspective, Romania, time

Thoughts on Carlos Fuentes’ “The Old Gringo”: Two Places and the Spaces Between

Reading Carlos Fuentes’ “The Old Gringo” felt like being taken into a place somewhere between two cultures, somewhere between past, present, and future, somewhere between sleeping and waking. This feeling, of occupying a space in between seems to me a central theme of the novel, in which it’s primary premises are the exact interrelations between […]

Posted in Blogs, Fuentes | Tagged with America, culture, dream, Mexico, Poetry, time

blog#8 – the burden of Names —

blog#8 – the burden of Names — Georges Perec’s book ‘W, or The Memory of Childhood’ was by far the book with the most interesting formatting. (Out of the books that I’ve read for this class anyway). The two parallel stories and the switching back-and-forth took a lot of getting used to, and admittedly, I […]

Posted in Blogs, Perec | Tagged with childhood, family, France, identity, living experience, lost in translation, memory, names, or the Memory of Childhood, perspective, time, vestige

The Time of the Doves

Hey everyone! The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda was quite a peculiar read. The story was a bit…

Posted in Blogs, Rodoreda | Tagged with change, life, time, war

blog#7 – a woman and her Cockroach —

blog#7 – a woman and her Cockroach — Reading The Passion According to G.H. was one of the closest moments that I felt like I was reading a well-composed transcript of my own thoughts. The way the Clarice Lispector seamlessly yet abruptly changes from concept to concept is mind-bogglingly impressive – all the while articulating […]

Posted in Blogs, Lispector | Tagged with 4th wall, agency, anxiety, Brazil, cockroach, death, divinity, existence, human, life, maid, monologue, neutral, Rio, The Passion According to G. H, time, Womanhood

Blog Post 2: Paris Peasant

In all honesty and transparency, this was a really challenging book for me to get through. I found it extremely confusing and almost always felt myself questioning what I was reading. Aragon’s words felt (for lack of better words) jumbled together as if we were listening to the constant thoughts and images running in his …

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Posted in Aragon, Blogs | Tagged with Salvador Dali, Surrealism, time

Proust Reflection

This was my first time reading any of Proust’s works and I started reading feeling a little uncertain about how much I would understand and enjoy the reading. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how well the book flowed and … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with dream vs reality, memory, time

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