I found it very difficult to enjoy this book. I tried so intently to read the words and give them the credit they deserved but I stand firmly in that a book is significant as the feelings it gives you. This novella made me feel nothing if not frustration. The beginning line held me well as it reads \u201cThis is going to be a horror story \u2026 But it won\u2019t appear to be, for the simple reason that I am the teller.\u201d(1) This captivated me as the main characteristic I could grab onto for clarity was the fact that she is a poet. Whether or not she is confident in her abilities, she writes like a poet; nonsensical at times and begging for decipher. I feel as though I would be deducing the text of its value by offering any reflection as I feel I was unable to form coherent thoughts so I look forward to the classroom discussion. However, the main thing I am curious about is the scattered nature of the events, the past mixing with the present and the future as well as the narrator speaking in first, second, and third person point of view. It makes me feel as though any conclusion I come to with the book would not be far-fetched.<\/p>\n
Midway through the book, the narrator has a friend, Arturito Belano, come back to Mexico City after leaving to fight for the left wing of Chile. I feel this character could be closer to the narrator, Auxilio, than she narrates. I would almost go as far as saying they are one in each other simply from the similarity of their names and how big of a role Arturito immediately plays in the narrative.<\/p>\n
I found the scene where she is hiding in the university’s lavatories particularly difficult to read but also refreshing as here she seems most present in her narrative. She reflects on her family and her friends and literature and life as she knows it. She speaks about her displacement as a woman in Mexico, originally from Uruguay, actively contributing to Mexico’s literary enrichment. Auxilio even goes as far as calling herself “the mother of Mexican poetry”. Even though this part of the book was easier to comprehend from the others, it will still difficult to decipher how she felt insecure in her poetry abilities but would go as far as giving herself a maternal label in the movement.<\/p>\n
My questions:<\/p>\n
I found it very difficult to enjoy this book. I tried so intently to read the words and give them the credit they deserved but I stand firmly in that a book is significant as the feelings it gives you. This novella made me feel nothing if not frustration. The beginning line held me well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bueno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}