So, I am not going to even pretend that I understood any of the subtext for what was going on in this week’s reading as I barely understood what was happening on the surface of the narrative as I was reading it. I considered watching the Netflix film to fill in some gaps but I […]
To be honest, I really am not the biggest fan of this book… I suppose I expected more based on the international praise it seemed to receive. I remember Fever Dream appearing on one of the featured shelves at my local library- I had no idea at the time that it was a translated work, nor […]
I sympathize better with people who had trouble with Borges after reading Fever Dream; I had no idea what was going on for large sections of the novel. I didn’t mind too much, though, and disorientation was obviously Schweblin’s intent. While I was mostly able to follow along with the main narrative, I couldn’t figure […]
We’ve reached the end of the course, and we’ve done it at perhaps the perfect place: the end of the…
We’ve reached the end of the course, and we’ve done it at perhaps the perfect place: the end of the…
Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. As a sociology major, many of my classes focus on environmental impacts on foreign communities, so it was interesting to read a fictionalized take on the modern technology intervention of pesticide use in rural com…
Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. As a sociology major, many of my classes focus on environmental impacts on foreign communities, so it was interesting to read a fictionalized take on the modern technology intervention of pesticide use in rural com…
Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
A conversation with Jordana Blejmar
Questions about Fever Dream
