“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, …
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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector is the shortest novella I’ve read, and I thought it was unique, but also weird. In this story, there are two narrative storylines, the first line is the narration from Rodrigo S.M.’s point of view. Rodrigo S.M. is a male writer who seems to be bored with life […]
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Rodoreda’s “Time of The Doves” is a story of love and loss, and the desperation that ensues when one must carry such a heavy weight for so long. I must say I was shocked when Natalia was about to kill her children and …
Rodoreda’s “Time of The Doves” is a story of love and loss, and the desperation that ensues when one must carry such a heavy weight for so long. I must say I was shocked when Natalia was about to kill her children and …
Hello all, welcome back to the blog. This weeks read is The Time of the Doves by Merce Rodoreda, which is one of the most prominent works of Catalan literature. The book chronicles the life of Natalia before, during and after the Spanish Civil War. It could be described as a story of the tragedies […]
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The Time of the Doves tells the story of the two marriages of the heroine, Natalia, living in the period of Spanish Civil War, when she first meets and falls in love with Quimet in the square. But their married life was not a prosperous one, and to make matters worse, Ouimet enlisted in the […]
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This book is definitely my favourite one yet. “The Shrouded Woman” is ultimately a story of revolt, a violation of social norms and patriarchal restrictions. Bombal portrays a woman who defies societal expectations about her role through the character of Ana María. Rather, Ana María challenges the confining grip of custom and expectation by asserting […]
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Where do we go after we die? I don’t know the answer to this question, but in The Shrouded Woman the narrator is sent into a limbo state between life and death, where her body is unable to move yet can still feel, and her consciousness is able to reflect on and come to terms […]
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★ Trigger Warning: Mentions of suicide, assault, and death. “Why must a woman’s nature be such that a man has always to be the pivot of her life?” Bomal, pg. 226 María Luisa Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman absolutely broke my heart. When I had finished the book, I sat down for a second to just […]
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After finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude, I was left amazed at how much Garcia Marquez was able to fit into the novel. Not only where there seven generations packed into this book, but each generation had meaning and characterization, and there was plot points surrounding all the characters we meant. Of course, the importance […]
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