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Desire and Suffering in Balzac

Monday, October 12, 2009

For one of my literature classes, we read an essay about the role of desire in narratives.  This essay used Balzac’s novel La Peau de Chagrin as an example of a novel whose narrative is driven by desire; however, it is twisted such that the narrative is actually driven by the protagonist’s attempt to avoid [...]

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God Tussi Confusing Ho

Sunday, June 28, 2009

This summer, my grandmother is visiting from India, so my parents decided to get the Indian channels on TV. A few weeks ago, a movie called God Tussi Great Ho was on. An Indian twist on Bruce Almighty, it depicts Salman Khan as a very angry man who regards the constant stream of problems in [...]

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