I feel like I say this every two weeks but this week’s reading, Distant Star, by Roberto Bolaño was probably my favourite so far. It read extremely well, was fast paced, discussed themes I am very interested in and had characters that were relatable, likely due to their status as university students. I think this is …
This week’s reading, though difficult in content, was a deeply engaging read. The an auto ethnographic style is very interesting. As Rigoberta points out her culture is illiterate and knowledge is passed down through an oral tradition. On the one hand, the auto ethnographic mode is true to this tradition in that the story and …
Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star was a fantastic read. The novella interestingly links the reader, the writer and Macabéa (the protagonist) into a complex relationship. The writer seems to have something to prove to the reader and yet is completely out of control of their own writing according to them. Macabéa, although she is their creation, is …
This week’s reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude was harder to get through than the first half. Although I still appreciate the novel as meaningful and enjoyed the plot it is written so densely that about half way through it becomes rather exhausting to keep up and I became slightly numb to the climaxes and moments …