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drama. i find it really tough to construct the characters' inner experience and the story in a dialogue that flows naturally. not to mention that there has also to be a general message conveyed through the lines. impossible for me to do it.
Kundera -Life is Elsewhere
Margaret Atwood -The Blind Assassin
Bulgakov -Master and Margarita
Assia Djebar - Loin de Médine- It is a book made of chapters in the form of notes and reflections on the lives of women during the life of Mohammed and shortly after. It is very interesting to see...
the book at the library in here does not have the preface from May 2003. but a friend of mine brought me once his own book that has this part too, so i had the chance to read it. unfortunately i do nto have the text now, and my arguments over it may not be very well grounded.
as for the...
i speak my native language, Romanian, then French, English, Italian, Spanish, i can read German and Portuguese, and i am learning Arabic right now.
btw, never_know, how come you speak Romanian?
well, i thought about that too, tartan_skirt, but then i could not explain the passages when Iris feels some sort of a rage against her sister's admirers, the flowers they leave on her grave, they expressing their admiration for her work, etc.
well, in the book "orientalism" i cannot remember him saying anything clear about colonization as such. but neither do i remember him to say anything (exept maybe in the conclusion or introduction chapters) about the palestinian-israelian conflict. even though he expressed his views on these...
these university places with their computers and people who want to go home when you are in the middle of something!
in any case, i have almost finished my point in the previous post. for me the fact that the two main characters were women was not very important. i attached more importance to...
i managed to finish this book too, but it was indeed a slow reading.
what i appreciated most in it was Iris's attitude towards society that tried to put her in a certain determined place as an old woman. she may not have had the courage to fight the positions others were asigning to her...
first of all, i have a question about Friedman. i have not read any of his articles, but as far as i heard about him he has quite a strong authoritarian view on what is happening in the world, and i think he is also a supporter of the war in Irak. i have begun to read some books on the history...
hi wilderness,
i love Marquez. i read love in time of cholera, but my favourite is the autumn of the patriarch. in any case, i approach Marquez's style by not trying to understand anything out of it. i just follow his sayings, and the ideas unexpectedly formulate in my head after a while. i do...
April reads:
on the road -Jack Kerouac
nights at the circus -Angela Carter
american ghosts and old world wonders -Angela Carter
fireworks -Angela Carter
unfortunately, i think every one of us with a decent age has met people who have been subject to some sort of sexual abuse. and in here, i have noticed that i missed pedophily in my enumeration. maybe freud would have something to say about it. because it is actually the kind of sexual abuse...
it is true that Sade is hard to digest sometimes. i have felt uneasy many times while reading him, since for me subjects like rape or incest are not very pleasant. but i just appreaciated him for shaking me off my shell and facing ideas towards which i have a very strong aversion. i think...