Welcome to the Learning English Through Literature Blog!

This is a space for you to exchange ideas, opinions and feelings about the books we are looking at and the ones you have chosen to present, perhaps even recommend some new ones.

As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.

Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.

So get writing!

Oliver

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Leviathan and the destiny

Hi everyone,

I cannot choose an extract from Leviathan (maybe because I'm not impressed for his writing style), but I think this sentence, from the beginning of the book, can show perfectly Auster's themes: the fate, the coincidences and the destiny in lives, using as a stage New York and its history.

"Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story".

And this is somethings that is repeating in the rest of his novels, as "Moon Palace", which is definitely much better, in my opinion.

See you all on friday!

Esther.
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