{"id":35,"date":"2023-03-27T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/?p=35"},"modified":"2023-03-27T19:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:02:17","slug":"week-eleven-distant-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/2023\/03\/27\/week-eleven-distant-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Week eleven- Distant Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this week’s reading, I decided to read \u201cDistant Star\u201d by Roberto Bolano. If I am going to be completely honest, this story did not connect with me as much as the other stories we have read this term. It wasn\u2019t that the story was unenjoyable or not interesting, but I found myself struggling to finish the story as it was a little confusing to me and didn\u2019t have the same impact as the recent books we\u2019ve such as The Hour of the Star or 100 Years of Solitude. It\u2019s possible that part of this is due to the fact that we are nearing the end of the term and I now have a large inventory of Latin American stories to compare the book to, however, I thought I would share my honest opinions of the book to start.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing that I did find interesting is that this story follows a theme I have seen in multiple stories we have read throughout the term in which the narrator or author plays with the timeline in a way that is different from what we may see in so-called \u201ctraditional writing\u201d. To elaborate, \u201cDistant Star\u201d takes a unique approach to its time sequence as we are aware that the events in this story, including the very end, have already occurred when the narrator starts the story, as we see little remarks and comments from the author’s present point of view throughout the story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, another theme that I have also noticed in different stories we have read this term (more specifically, \u201cThe Hour of the Star\u201d) and is significantly highlighted in this story is the way in which the author plays with the perspective of the story. As I mentioned before, the narrator seems to be looking back on the event and the story of Carlos Wieder through his own memory of him (with the addition of information from his friends incorporate throughout). In this sense using an anonymous writer to tell the story from \u201cmany years later\u201d, allows the author to create some distance from the events and provide a clear and full picture of the events that occurred while also illuminating the emotions that were present by someone who was here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Growing on this idea, I would love to hear more of your thoughts about the perspective and time approach this story took. How else might this story have changed if we had looked at the narrator\u2019s account while it was occurring? Or how do you think we would of view the themes throughout the story if it was written from the perspective of Carlos Wieder\/Albert Ruiz-Tagle instead?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this week’s reading, I decided to read \u201cDistant Star\u201d by Roberto Bolano. If I am going to be completely honest, this story did not connect with me as much as the other stories we have read this term. It wasn\u2019t that the story was unenjoyable or not interesting, but I found myself struggling to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,3,32],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bolano","tag-perspective","tag-play","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span312discussion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}