Nadja, André Breton
Week 3's read is Nadja by André Breton, a semi-autobiographical novel following the authors fascination with a women, Nadja. It is set in France and includes and explores the ideas of surrealism. The semi-autobiographical nature of this reading created a structure unlike anything I have ever read before. It felt like I was reading the authors stream of consciousness, or diary, in all his opinions of the places, plays, and people described. One part I really liked about this reading was the inclusion of photos of the places and people referenced. They are all French buildings and characters, that helped to remind me that I was reading about real people, places and events. I felt like I was able to imagine the time period in which this story takes place better. Furthermore, out of all the romance languages we are going to study in this class, I am most familiar with French. While I would not call myself fluent, I did study it for enough years that I enjoyed reading the excerpts that ...