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If This Is a Man
Reading the back cover of this book, I see among generally accurate praise the statement that “Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit”. I’ve clearly read a different book. In my eyes, If This Is a Man remains a lasting testament to the laughable frailness of the human […]
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If This Is a Man
Reading the back cover of this book, I see among generally accurate praise the statement that “Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit”. I’ve clearly read a different book. In my eyes, If This Is a Man remains a lasting testament to the laughable frailness of the human […]Continue reading →
Primo Levi- Dumb American Publishers and a Jew’s Timeless Purgatory
After reading Survival in Auschwitz for a second time, I have to say this is one of the best texts we’ve read all year. It’s the only true work of non-fiction (Columbus you were lieing through your teeth!) we’ve read throughout this entire course, and it makes me incredibly disappointed. This retelling made me remember […]
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Arlt, Borges and Hernandez
Alright, since there were quite a few stories to read on this week, I’ll go over some of my select favorites from each author (Borges being the only one with multiple…). The Cooked Cat: This stood out as a very weird, fragmented story to me. The nature of the characters are sadistic, and the writing […]
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The Metamorphosis & The Yellow Wallpaper
The Metamorphosis has now become one of my top 10 favorite short stories of all time. Yes, I absolutely loved it. The story hooks you in from the very first sentence, and it brings clearly to light one of the big themes of the entire work in that opener – the absurdity of life. It’s […]
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Arlt, Borges and Hernandez
After reading Kafka’s short story I wasn’t expecting to like these short stories as much I did. The story about the cooked cat was one of the weirdest stories I have ever read – it seemed to be about nothing … Continue reading →
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Survival in Auschwitz
Prior to reading “Survival in Auschwitz,” I always thought Freud had a point when he said we repress our most traumatic memories. While that may be true to some extent, I found that for the majority of cases, we don’t … Continue reading →
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Milieu of Uruguay and Argentina. (Is that even grammatically correct??)
This week we were to have read Borges, Arlt, and Hernández. However I am only going to talk about some of the stories we read for this section of arts one. Cooked Cat. Cooked Cat by Arlt is the first story I read. So please bear with me […]
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Borges, Hernandez, & Arlt
Amongst the well-known works of Borges, I’m glad we got the chance to read “The Cooked Cat” and “The Daisy Dolls”. These two were definitely my favorite, and probably rank within the top five of the whole Arts One reading … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Borges, Arlt, and Hernandez
Sorry for the late post, my computer has been prone to random spazzes lately… Anyways, with regard to the works, my favorites were without a doubt those of Borges. I found that the prose flowed beautifully, and at the end of most I was left with a complete mind f*ck. My favorite of these has […] Continue reading →
