Hi Everyone! For this week’s blog post, I am going to be reflecting on Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse. I really enjoyed this novel. Not only did I find the storyline to be very engaging, but also the linear narrative to be quite refreshing (especially after some of the other texts we’ve read for this course). Personally, for me this week’s been pretty hectic with many midterms and multiple assignments due which is why it was also really nice to have a fairly short (and interesting)  novel to read. Knowing that this reading was for a course helped me relax and take breaks between my s ..read more

Hi everyone! Today, I’m going to be reflecting on Alberto Moravia’s novel, Agostino. I figure most people would have noticed this, but while reading the novel, I was immediately reminded of the psychoanalytic theory of the Oedipus complex. This theory, in short, highlights the idea that children view their opposite-sex parent in a sexual manner while treating their same-sex parent as competition. This goes on until the child finally starts to view their same-sex parent as a role model, and eventually lets go of their sexual desires for the opposite-sex parent. Right off the bat, the way Agosti ..read more