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blog#4 – a Dead Woman existing in the 4D

blog#4 – a Dead Woman existing in the 4D Life is a crueler fate than Death. That’s the thought that rattled in my head for the entire reading of Bombal’s ‘The Shrouded Woman’. Though many other attributes of the story become abundantly clear, the atmosphere of Death and Envy was subtle, yet, overwhelming. The addition […]

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blog#3 – Paris Peasant: Blonde Spring

I loved reading Paris Peasant. It was everything it was described as: “a-novel-that-was-not-a-novel”, a character study, a portrait, part-fiction, part-treatise, part-memoir. I did wonder beforehand how a novel could encompass all of these things and still be balanced and enjoyable, yet it did all these things and more. For a few moments during my reading, […]

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