This course is certainly proving to be interesting for me in a couple of ways. One has been reading literature from different times, in a different language and different cultures and the other is having an opportunity to 'hear' other people. I guess that is why I have enjoyed the blogs. In our busy lives, it is not often that you are able to sit down with different individuals and find out how they 'see' or interpret things.
What I have appreciated about the literature has been the constant reminder that there is more to our world than what is around us. There are relationships of every kind in every place in the world and the common thread that we all share is the ability to have relationships. Relationships are varied. Some are with families, some are with lovers, some are within communities and some are with an individual’s own thoughts and emotions.
For me, I have responded to the theme of relationships and dynamics that result from the interaction. Each character has revealed something of their perceptions, their hopes, their disappointments and how they see their world. One of the gifts of literature is that there are no masks. That is to say, we can take the time to see beyond what is written and understand. We as individuals can wear a mask when we personally interact with others but in literature that mask comes off and we can see within each character.
Cumanda once again reminded me that we all share common needs and desires and feel the same pain or joy. Las Memorias de Mama Blanca took me back to some funny moments in my own life when I was a child. Piedra Callada and Las Hortensias were like one of those twisted movies that sometimes I like to watch.
Overall, I have found the readings interesting. For me personally, my own growth in reading and comprehending Spanish (sometimes without using a dictionary at all) has been a joy and very rewarding.
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Cheryl, I think it's interesting and useful that you highlight the theme of "relationships," which is indeed a notion that includes but also goes beyond the familial connections that I've been stressing. So it includes also the relations between lovers (in Neruda) or between bosses and employees (in "Piedra Callada"), for instances.
But I'm not so sure I understand what you mean when you say that "there are no masks" in literature. For instance, isn't the mother-in-law in Brunet's story a good example of a character who (as the final line suggests) quite clearly sets out to deceive? Or in another way, couldn't one imagine Neruda to be trying on a series of "masks" in the course of his cycle of love poems?
Hola Cheryl
I think one of the reasons that you have enjoyed the readings is that you can relate them to your eown experiences to a certain degree unlike a majority of the class. I am a firm believer that in order to truly understand a novel with many faces is to have experienced life. There are many excptions to this comment but I will stand by it.
Hola Cheryl
I think one of the reasons that you have enjoyed the readings is that you can relate them to your eown experiences to a certain degree unlike a majority of the class. I am a firm believer that in order to truly understand a novel with many faces is to have experienced life. There are many excptions to this comment but I will stand by it.
Hi Cheryl,
I have a lot of the same feelings about the first half of the course. Like you said, it's great that our readings come from a variety of eras and countries, and also that the blogs give us the opportunity to share ideas. Previously, I had a bit of a mental roadblock about reading in Spanish, but after just diving in and leaving the dictionary aside, I've really enjoyed it.
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