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Week 9: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Posted by: Julia W
Hey everyone, I hope your weekend was good! I chose to read the novel Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa. However, due to the themes of corruption, force, piety, and sexual exploitation, this wasn't th... read full post >>
Mario Vargas Llosa’s Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: Adding Fuel to the Fire
Posted by: Alyssa Almerling
Mario Vargus Llosa's book has many parodical elements. His themes of sex, desire, and prostitution are put into very serious terms. As Jon mentions in the lecture, these terms are usually in a freer environment and not discussed or used in formal sense... read full post >>
Mario Vargas Llosa’s Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: Adding Fuel to the Fire
Posted by: Alyssa Almerling
Mario Vargus Llosa's book has many parodical elements. His themes of sex, desire, and prostitution are put into very serious terms. As Jon mentions in the lecture, these terms are usually in a freer environment and not discussed or used in formal sense... read full post >>
Week 9: The Question of Gender and the Self in The Hour of the Star
Posted by: samuel wallace
Clarice Lispector is an author who is famous for her capricious dance between the actual and the abstraction. Through her story The Hour of the Star providing the semblance of a plot, she is able to cover the meaning of existence, or in her least complex, simply dive into the everyday meanderings of […] read full post >>
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Posted by: laura halcrow
This week’s novel by Vargas Llosa, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, was a really fun read! I will say, even though Jon informed us it was a comedy, the book was not at all what I was expecting – but in a good way! The idea of having a “special service” comprised of prostitutes […] read full post >>
The Hour of the Star
Posted by: Chanya Chawla
Being the shortest book this term, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star was an easy read in terms of length. However, despite the short length of the Novella, I found Lispector's writing style to be challenging at times. This rather dense writing style... read full post >>
The Hour of the Star
Posted by: Chanya Chawla
Being the shortest book this term, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star was an easy read in terms of length. However, despite the short length of the Novella, I found Lispector's writing style to be challenging at times. This rather dense writing style... read full post >>
Week 9: Captain Pantoja and The Special Service
Posted by: Melika
Hello Blog readers,This week I read Captain Pantoja And The Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, and I was not expecting what I just read. To put it blankly, this book was all about sex, yet in such a formal way to disguise the topic. The overa... read full post >>
Week 9: Captain Pantoja and The Special Service
Posted by: Melika
Hello Blog readers,This week I read Captain Pantoja And The Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa, and I was not expecting what I just read. To put it blankly, this book was all about sex, yet in such a formal way to disguise the topic. The overa... read full post >>
Lispector: Hour of the Star
Posted by: kara quast
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 … read full post >>
