Lozza_55 Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 Is Anyone Studying the House of Spirts or One hundred years of solitude?If so whats your thoughts on them??Whats everyone studying for theirs?? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenSara Posted June 22, 2008 Report Share Posted June 22, 2008 We had "The House of the Spirits" as one of our world literature works in Swedish A1. I love that book, Allende is an excellent writer. She uses language beautifully and her characters are very credible. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
booji Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 We had "The House of the Spirits" as one of our world literature works in Swedish A1. I love that book, Allende is an excellent writer. She uses language beautifully and her characters are very credible.Yeah I read that book in Spanish for AP Spanish Literature and it was excellent. If you read spanish, you should check out some of her other works...(probably available in English too, but something is always lost in translation ) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
booji Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 Is Anyone Studying the House of Spirts or One hundred years of solitude?If so whats your thoughts on them??Whats everyone studying for theirs??I have read One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Anos de Soledad) in English and Spanish and its a great novel, albeit really long. You have to really appreciate Marquez' use of magical realism in that novel. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chukky Posted June 26, 2008 Report Share Posted June 26, 2008 Is Anyone Studying the House of Spirts or One hundred years of solitude?If so whats your thoughts on them??Whats everyone studying for theirs??We were studying it for our part two texts. \it is a very intersesting book Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vican Posted June 30, 2008 Report Share Posted June 30, 2008 We had "The House of the Spirits" as one of our world literature works in Swedish A1. I love that book, Allende is an excellent writer. She uses language beautifully and her characters are very credible.We read "The House of the Spirits" in Swedish as well. I used it for my world lit, and compared it to Pride and Prejudice. I really liked the book; Allende is a wonderful writter. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenSara Posted June 30, 2008 Report Share Posted June 30, 2008 We read "The House of the Spirits" in Swedish as well. I used it for my world lit, and compared it to Pride and Prejudice. I really liked the book; Allende is a wonderful writter.I did the same thing, haha! What aspect did you compare? I focused on Elizabeth's repsectively Santiago's heroic characteristics. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vican Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 I did the same thing, haha! What aspect did you compare? I focused on Elizabeth's repsectively Santiago's heroic characteristics.I focused on the aspect of marriage and the different views found in both books. It was pretty easy - Pride and Prejudice mainly focuses on marriage after all, haha. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsandralee Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 my english class SL read 'house of spirits' i really liked it - even though some parts of it were a bit bluntly violent and way too vivid. & i read hundred years of solitude on my own - which i also liked the thing about spanish writers, i think, is that they have often write their stories portraying gender roles.like in house of spirits - the women, the more intuitive, had special powers and characteristics, whereas the men have other distinguishable features and, well i really don't remember garcia's book that much - its been so long, but with ursula and her motherly figure. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrswong Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 House of the Spirits is one of our World lit books too! Even though we haven't started world lit yet... I've read it and I really liked it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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