This week’s reading, The Taiga Syndrome, by Cristina Rivera Garza is really weird. But I liked it? Particularly the explicit sex scenes took me by surprise, and yet they were written with such distance and in sometimes disturbingly medical terms without seeming objective at all. It was half uncomfortable and half enrapturing to read, which makes …
This weeks reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez was one of the most accessible and enjoyable readings so far. Although there was something of a lack of overall plot, this can be said for several of the previous readings and there is always enough happening that the novel reads smoothly and remains …
This weeks reading, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo is a fragmented story that begins with a young man seeking out his estranged father in a town called Comala to fulfil his mother’s dying request. As the novel progresses the young man dies and the tale focusses on the father, Pedro Páramo, and how he caused the …