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Hi Lorana. I agree with you in many aspects relates to "In the country of the last things". It is an interesting book because it makes us reflect about our society.
In relation to your questions, I do not consider that Paul Auster was trying to make…
I have also liked the novel very much. The way in which the unnamed city is portrayed is absolutely amazing. I believe I could actually see, smell, feel and hear what Anna was describing.
Another thing that called my attention was the way in which A…
Lore, have you commented on Graciela's post?
Since she opened the discussion on this play, we should all add our comments on her blog, so as to give her the opportunity to play the role of coordinator, leader, guide.
We will do the same on your post…
Well done Lore! you have finally managed to find your way. How do you feel now?
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I would like to share some information about how to write a summary. Writing a Summary.docx
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 7:52pm —
POWERPOIT PRESENTATIONS
I found this page that have useful tips to prepare an interactive powerpoint presentations. In this presentations students can surf through the slides whateverorder they want and interact with the content. www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk
www.guidesandtutorials.net
www.guidesandtutorials.net
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 7:00pm —
20 th century Hits volume one and two
Hi! I went to musimundo to buy some cds and books as a prize for having finished my practicas. I found the 20th century hits trilogy volumme one and two very interesting because you have the history of the music together in six cds. It's useful to teach past simple and passive voice in a funny way. Apart from that you can coordinate activities with the music teacher or with the history teacher as well
Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:47am —
In the country of the last things
Hi again. I read till page 172. It is really interesting how the author describe the relationship between Anna and Victoria. How they show us that in difficult times a person is able to fall in love with someone of the same gender or with someone of different gender: People can be heterosexual and homosexual as well. In the case of Anna and Victoria, I think their relationship it is not a question of love and sex only. It is about to give each other the encourage to live the present situation.
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Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:40am —
In the coutry of the last things
Hi again! I read until page 173. In these pages is shown how people change because of extreme situations. For example, Victoria fells in love with Anna. They are together for few months. I think for both of them it is not only a question of love and sex because both of them have things in common. They lose their relatives, families and friends.Being together it was a question of giving each other the courage to live in difficult times and face loneliness. It reinforces the idea that in times of… Continue
Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:28am —
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- At 4:48pm on November 23, 2009,
Graciela Cristina Mené said…
- Women suffer from the "temptations of the flesh", but not so desperately. Imagine a woman feeling as if she were to explode!
I seriously think that there are some women who are in trouble due to this issue, especially those who never simulate the fact that they NEED to get married immediately, just to hide this desire in front of the people.
Women do masturbate. It's an animal instict and women are animals. However, I think Anna would never write those words as a woman, but as Paul Auster himself. I recognize this as his own instinct, as if he were with Anna and those hands were Paul's on Anna' body. I cannot think of the act in complete isolation, but in company. It might be a masculine way of sexual desire.
- At 4:45pm on November 23, 2009,
Graciela Cristina Mené said…
- You know that I haven't finished In The Country Of The Last Things yet. And yesterday, when I reached page 62, I found Anna not as Anna, but as Paul Auster. I have to contradict myself when I thought that the writer had to have studied the femenine points of view very well. Well, I think that he failed in the part of the masturbation. I think he let the masculine wishes flow naturally.
The act of masturbation belongs to both women and men, but isn't is a very masculine way to confess?
- At 5:55pm on November 18, 2009,
Graciela Cristina Mené said…
- You know that I haven't finished In The Country Of The Last Things yet. And yesterday, when I reached page 62, I found Anna not as Anna, but as Paul Auster. I have to contradict myself when I thought that the writer had to have studied the femenine points of view very well. Well, I think that he failed in the part of the masturbation. I think he let the masculine wishes flow naturally.
The act of masturbation belongs to both women and men, but isn't is a very masculine way to confess?
- At 5:52pm on November 18, 2009,
Graciela Cristina Mené said…
- Comment by Graciela Cristina Mené on November 15, 2009 at 4:23pm Delete Comment In the Country of the Last Things by Paul Auster
I am still reading the novel, but I will give my first impressions of it.
As my first comment, I’d like to share the idea that the author, Paul Auster,
dealt with all the female points of view very well: sensations, impressions, sensitivities, sensibilities and even sexual matters. Anna Blume is nineteen when she decides to start the trip looking for her brother William in this unnamed, virtually nonexistent and almost ghostly country. Unnamed, because it is so insignificant that it doesn’t have even a name, virtually nonexisatent because nobody has ever known a country like the one mentioned in this letter, and ghostly country because it terrifies anybody so much.
As Anna is very young and comes from a wealthy family, it turns into a difficult situation to live on the streets and to learn what extreme poverty means indeed. Paul Auster must have worked very much on what a young woman feels in between this terrible transition from having everything she wants to having thouroghly nothing.
My second comment is, as a matter of fact, a question. To be the country of the last things, doesn’t it have a lot of things? And the first and the most impressive is that this virtually nonexistent country has a lot of well-organized groups, such as The Runners, The Last Leap, Eutahnasia Clinics, Assassination Clubs among others. All of them in search of death. Death has become the reason to live. There is a clear evidence on page 15, when Anna writes in her long letter: “Death is no longer an abstraction, but a real possibility that haunts each moment of life.” If death is not abstraction, it means that it is a concrete subject. As a conclusion, they have death. The second thing I consider this country has is shit. On page 30 Anna says that “shit is a serious business” because people, in that country, collect shit to supply them with energy. So, these people have also energy.
Another topic to consider is memory. Memory, like the city, is in constant flux and constant decay. Anna thinks that she loses her memory for good (page 38). She thinks this way because it is the way to survive. And she writes this long long letter in order to keep all her memoir written in a bunch of pages, so when she forgets something, she can read and remember everything.
The last thing I’ll be writing about today is about people’s beliefs. Anna’s new friend, Isabel, believes deeply in God, She thanks the glory of having met Anna. She thinks God introduces Anna to her because Isabel is constantly talking to him. Isabel is seriously thankful of what God gives her. Even in Isabel’s worst moments, she believes in God very much.
I’ll be giving more opinions in short. I hope you agree with what I’ve written up to now.
- At 1:29am on November 17, 2009,
Graciela Cristina Mené said…
- Lore, It's great that you are sharing some useful pages with us. I promise I'll be studying them at the weekend deeply.
By the way, I'd like to share with you a very interesting page I found in the Net, probably you already know it. But, just in case....
http://pagesperson-orange.fr/jeremytaylor/download.htm
Well, I haven't been so smart with the blog. I hope, then, you can enjoy the page as well as I do
- At 6:32am on April 16, 2009,
Viviana said…
- Welcome Lorena!
Hope you´ve enjoyed and participated in our first blog post.
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