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  1. aniela

    What do you think would be the toughest genre to write?

    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.
  2. aniela

    May Readings

    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...
  3. aniela

    Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin

    thanks, Doug Johnson, i guess that could make sense.
  4. aniela

    How Many Languages Do You Know and Use?

    why not before highschool, ValkyrieRaven88?
  5. aniela

    edward said-orientalism

    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...
  6. aniela

    Recommend me some books

    if you liked Brave New World maybe you can try another book by Huxley, but in a different style: Point Counterpoint.
  7. aniela

    How Many Languages Do You Know and Use?

    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?
  8. aniela

    Question Game

    sleep what would be the most disturbing thing for you to draw?
  9. aniela

    Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin

    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.
  10. aniela

    edward said-orientalism

    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...
  11. aniela

    Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin

    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...
  12. aniela

    Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin

    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...
  13. aniela

    edward said-orientalism

    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...
  14. aniela

    Gabriel García Márquez

    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...
  15. aniela

    José Saramago: Blindness

    good luck, i hope you will enjoy it. it is a really good book.
  16. aniela

    Your Name, Gender & Age...

    aniela f 25
  17. aniela

    April 2006 Reads

    April reads: on the road -Jack Kerouac nights at the circus -Angela Carter american ghosts and old world wonders -Angela Carter fireworks -Angela Carter
  18. aniela

    Good novels you recommend that were published in the last 5-10 years

    i would suggest Kundera with Immortality too.
  19. aniela

    Marquis de Sade

    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...
  20. aniela

    Marquis de Sade

    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...
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