The non-linear storytelling was honestly confusing. I know it’s supposed to mimic the narrator’s train of thought but… since I’m not her, I didn’t really know where all this information was coming from! I felt like that “guy who needs context” meme for the beginning portion. There were details all over the place and one […]
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Norman Manea’s The Trenchcoat is definitely one of those stories that stayed on my mind after finishing it, but I also have to admit that I found it a bit confusing at times. While reading it, I had to go back and reread certain parts more than once to fully understand what was happening. That […]
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Dearest gentle reader… (sorry I was watching Bridgerton today) Honestly I quite enjoyed this book, the way it is written, I am a little biased that it is the story of a woman written by a woman but nevertheless in this book I noticed a lot of attention to the little physical details, like the […]
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Reading “The Trenchcoat” honestly felt like sitting through one of those long adult dinner parties where everyone is drinking wine and talking about politics while you slowly lose track of what the conversation is even about. For most of the story, the characters are just sitting around talking, gossiping, and making slightly awkward jokes. At […]
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After reading the Trenchcoat, I feel quite confused. I feel like the other books I’ve read for this course have been easier to follow, with plots and settings, as well as distinct characters. In this novel, there are so many characters that I cannot keep track of who is speaking, or their names. The Learned […]
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The Trenchcoat was a pretty unsettling read in a quiet kind of way. The story feels simple on the surface, but there’s this constant tension lingering in the background that slowly creeps up on you. What I found really interesting is that everything is told through a child’s perspective. The narrator doesn’t fully understand the […]
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“The Trenchcoat” by Norman Manea was another piece of literature that left me confused. From the very beginning, I felt overwhelmed by the number of characters appearing one after another, whilst also trying to understand what was going on. On top of the fact that there were multiple characters, there were also characters that appeared […]
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This book by Duras marked a visit to another completely different part of the world than those that I have already visited through the books that I have chosen, as it takes place in the colony of French Indochina, a part of current day Vietnam. I truly did not expect this course’s texts to take […]
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First of all, I really liked how fast this book was to get through compared to last week’s read. Like genuinely flew through it. Now onto the actual reflection.The title of this novel immediately made me think of secrets, and honestly a trench coat is kind of the perfect symbol for that. Think about […]
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When I read The Lover I felt like the opening immediately created a reflective and slightly unsettling tone. at the start the narrator starts by describing her older self and her “ravaged” face before returning to the memory of being fifteen and a half. Beginning the story like this makes the reader aware that everything […]
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