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Days of Abandonment: Ferrante on Resilience
DAYS OF ABANDONMENT is a novel of grief as it is of growth; Olga is a resilient woman. The story baseline unfolds a psychological trigger on Olga, her husband Mario has just announced leaving Olga and her two kids for a younger woman. Olga, at the beginning is rationalizing. Her mind reasons on past memories […] Continue reading
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Making sense of the world after losing your compass
This was depressing. In a bad way? No, I wouldn’t say so. However, the length of her struggles really made you, as a reader, feel exhausted along with her. Despite that, I think it was a narrative that was necessary to share and a tale that need not just be read by women, but understood by the opposite sex as… Continue reading
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He’s a prick so can you please stop thinking about him?
I have to say this as my first sentence that the novel pissed me off. I got so agitated, upset and aggressive reading it. Most of the time the only things present in my brain are “why the heck are you thinking about all these nonsense, Olga?” “WOMAN, p… Continue reading
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The Days of Abandonment: She had me in the first half not gonna lie
I sadly read this book in more than one sitting (it was around 5), so my thoughts are quite disconnected. Reading the first half of this book, I was really following the arc of Olga’s loss. Her feelings and actions all seemed completely valid to me after experiencing such a betrayal. I think where this book […] Continue reading
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"The Days of Abandonment" by Ferrante: Spiraling
Upon reading this story, the first thought that came to mind is: have the books we’ve read so far essentially been intense depictions of what many individuals experience in daily life? In the case of The Possession, don’t we all get a little jealous af… Continue reading
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Justice 4 Otto
I have many thoughts. Not many of them are positive, but I will try to keep this as pleasant as… Continue reading
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The Days of Abandonment: The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah
As I’m writing this, I’m only about 70% of the way through the novel (I’ll finish tonight once this is posted) (illegal, I know), and so if there are any plot twists in the last quarter then that’s why I won’t reference them. 1. Firstly, I wanted to briefly note the progression of how the […] Continue reading
The Days of Abandonment
I enjoyed reading this book for the most part and I’m learning from this class and from RMST 202 that I like Italian books. I remember also liking the Ferrante from the previous class, although I did like it quite a bit more than this book. Throughout the book, I felt that although Olga had a terrible thing happen to… Continue reading
The Days of Abandonment: Sacrificing vs. Ghosting
This book was what struck me when I first saw the content of this course. Elena Ferrante is one of the very famous authors whose work I had never had time to read. However, I had always heard brilliant comments from literary critics and from my friends in the Italian Department, especially about My Brilliant […] Continue reading
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The Days of Abandonment (Olga, Queen of Crashing Out)
Having read Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend for RMST 202 and loving it so much I’m now on book three of the quartet, I went into this with high, high hopes, which weren’t quite met. Let me explain. I read this in one evening and was left feeling very stressed after. The entire book is […] Continue reading