I really enjoyed reading this short story this week. The story started off in an environment very similar to one you would find here — a group of students joining together to study something they loved. Having the story start off very light and i…
Reading Yo-Yo Boing! by Giannina Braschi was a unique and thought-provoking experience for me. As someone who is semi-bilingual and interested in linguistics, translation, and multicultural literature, this book provided me with a deeper insight into the complex nature of language and culture. One of the central themes of the book is bilingualism and the […]
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This week I chose to dive into “Distant Star” by Roberto Bolaño. I enjoyed this week’s reading as it felt like I was reading some sort of mystery crime novel filled with thrilling scenes. As we’ve all realized throughout the weeks, names have importance, and at first glance I thought the novel would be in […]
I. Do. Not. Like. Poets. This was my first impression halfway into the book. I don’t like their worldview, or the way they write about experiencing things. I bet these people would’ve been been miserable to hang out with. As the book opened in the setting of college, something about the mood of this book greatly … Continue reading →
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Hi all, This week I discuss Distant Star. Here, I expand on what life may have been like during the years of late Allende/early Pinochet, the horrendous self-destruction of extreme fascist ideology, and justice (what is it?) I hope you like Machuca, and La muerte y la doncella (if you watch them) Question: Should one …
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My first emotion while reading Roberto Bolano’s Distant Star was shock—the author does not paint the portrait of the artist as a relatively favourable position in Chilean society, but rather bleak by contrast. Through censorship, disappearances and political violence—both overtly depicted as well as presented in artistic mediums in the case of Carlos […]
Hi everyone, I was really looking forward to this book this week, especially because I have briefly gotten to do some high-level research into these types of events all throughout Latin America–but I have never gotten to explore the situation in Chile in-depth and have always wanted to. Luckily, Bolaño’s book provides an account or […]
I felt somewhat indifferent toward this novella, Distant Star by Roberto Bolano. It had a similar energy to the Borges book we read (which I hated) but in a more accessible fashion. I have previously encountered the Bolano Literary Universe thanks to a…
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I felt somewhat indifferent toward this novella, Distant Star by Roberto Bolano. It had a similar energy to the Borges book we read (which I hated) but in a more accessible fashion. I have previously encountered the Bolano Literary Universe thanks to a…
I was very excited to notice that this week’s reading was a novel written in both English and Spanish, or as we also know it “Spanglish”. It was a really comforting read as I sometimes find myself speaking in Spanglish, mainly with my Spanish-speaker friends and with my family ever since I moved to Vancouver. […]
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