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4. Un libro que involucre un atraco (asalto, robo, estafa)
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last updated Dec 10, 2018 02:17PM
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“There is always another side, always.”
I read Jane Eyre for the first time last year (2017) and it became one of my favorite books of all times. Brontë’s novel was, in my opinion, exquisitely built, including the dark, gloomy, sad atmosphere and the characters, which had a degree of complexity that made them very human. One of such characters is Bertha Mason - in all appearances an antihero, as she stands between the happiness of Jane and Mr. Rochester just m ...more
“There is always another side, always.”
I read Jane Eyre for the first time last year (2017) and it became one of my favorite books of all times. Brontë’s novel was, in my opinion, exquisitely built, including the dark, gloomy, sad atmosphere and the characters, which had a degree of complexity that made them very human. One of such characters is Bertha Mason - in all appearances an antihero, as she stands between the happiness of Jane and Mr. Rochester just m ...more
I heard about this book a long time ago but I wasn't aware of the topic and when I found out I decided to read it for my Book Riot challenge.
Favorite part: I love the way this book gives a voice to Antoinette "Bertha" Mason Cosway Rochester because on Jane Eyre it was such a flat character with only one dimension: madness. I also liked the part about Jean's life and I like to see how much of her life is mixed with the fiction she was writing.
Least favorite part: There were times when the first p ...more
Favorite part: I love the way this book gives a voice to Antoinette "Bertha" Mason Cosway Rochester because on Jane Eyre it was such a flat character with only one dimension: madness. I also liked the part about Jean's life and I like to see how much of her life is mixed with the fiction she was writing.
Least favorite part: There were times when the first p ...more
Jean Rhys shows us a rewriting of one of the most enigmatic characters in Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason, the first wife of Mr. Rochester. But, first of all, we have to consider that her real name is Antoinette Cosway, and that the other name is how Rochester decided to call her, as a way of undermining her as an individual. She is double marginalised as a woman, and as a half-breed. All of her family is bad-treated even by the negro population of Jamaica. They do not fit anywhere.
The narration is fir ...more
The narration is fir ...more
Una lectura que me ha sorprendido; no es lo que esperaba.
Una historia más oscura e inquietante que la novela semi-romántica que había imaginado que sería...
Entiendo que no es necesario haber leído previamente Jane Eyre, pero sí creo que enriquece conocer la historia de Rochester y (view spoiler) para apreciar mejor esta historia, que es una reivindicación de Antoinette/Bertha, una muchacha libre, desubicada por sus circunstancias, y perseguida por historias fa ...more
Una historia más oscura e inquietante que la novela semi-romántica que había imaginado que sería...
Entiendo que no es necesario haber leído previamente Jane Eyre, pero sí creo que enriquece conocer la historia de Rochester y (view spoiler) para apreciar mejor esta historia, que es una reivindicación de Antoinette/Bertha, una muchacha libre, desubicada por sus circunstancias, y perseguida por historias fa ...more
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