http://lbsmith.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/the-experience-of-reading-pedro-paramo-2/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:08:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://lbsmith.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/the-experience-of-reading-pedro-paramo-2/#comment-11 Catherine Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:40:43 +0000 http://lbsmith.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/the-experience-of-reading-pedro-paramo-2/#comment-11 I wouldn't say you understood nothing. I would say you understood quite a lot from your examples of solitude, etc. I think the trick is in not expecting to "understand" it in the conventional sense of how we understand a story. Your idea of the novel being like a series of photos is a good way to put it, the different scene changes being rather like viewing a set of movie stills. Good post. I wouldn’t say you understood nothing. I would say you understood quite a lot from your examples of solitude, etc. I think the trick is in not expecting to “understand” it in the conventional sense of how we understand a story. Your idea of the novel being like a series of photos is a good way to put it, the different scene changes being rather like viewing a set of movie stills. Good post.

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