“But now, now that I am dead, it occurs to me that possibly all men once in their lifetime long to make some great renunciation… in order to feel themselves masters of their own destiny.” wow…. I really liked this novel. The narration through a “ghost’s” POV made it interesting in a way […]
I really liked this book and managed to read it in one sitting, unlike Proust. I read it in the original language, Spanish, and I was a tiny bit lost at first. Honestly, I think it might have been easier for me to read it in English. I don’t know if my Spanish vocabulary has […]
For me, this whole novel lost me at many parts, but the moments where I did pay attention, it gave me one specific feeling: nostalgia. Proust shows nostalgia exactly as it feels, like being immediately pulled away into the past without choosing to. First of all, I want to answer the lecture’s questions. What do […]
Hi! I’m Laura. I’m from Lima, Peru, and I moved to Vancouver about four years ago. I’m currently a third-year student pursuing a BA in Economics with a minor in Commerce. If you read that and thought, “This person does not scream literature,” you’d be right. I’m not really a “literature” person, and like many […]
