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From the first paragraph of Proust’s Combray, the author’s intrinsic, attentive, and stunning control over language is evident. The manner in which he captures the disorientation of hovering listlessly in the place between sleep and awake–that long moment of disequilibrium as we return to ourselves following a dream (“it seemed to me that I myself […] read full post >>

blog#2 – Combray and Childhood Guilt — While reading Proust’s Combray, I automatically and unconsciously tried to categorize it in my brain with themes of other texts and books I’ve read in the past. The result was somewhere between ‘intimacy-deprived only child soliloquy‘ and ‘anxiety fueled mommy issues‘. Though Combray left with me with more […] read full post >>

Reading Proust’s “Combray” was such a delightful experience, especially thanks to his wonderful use of descriptive language. One line that quite amazed me was this: “[…] she derived from this very constraint one more delicate thought, like good poets forced by the tyranny of rhyme to find their most beautiful lines […]” (24). The simile […] read full post >>

After our conversations about our attitudes towards reading in class on Thursday, I was definitely more intentional and considerate about my reading patterns and behavior while I read Combray. In my contemplative state during my reading, I actually picked up on synchronicity between the conversations we had in class and the author’s attitudes towards reading […] read full post >>

Before I relate to the text, I would like to admire the lofty imagery that we are left with when reading Proust’s Combray. It is almost like a string of thoughts that we are bombarded with and is an open ground for feeling many of the emotions and the experiences that the author himself has […] read full post >>

  This first section of Michael Proust’s Combray is to me a tangled web of meaning and tangential breaks that feels as disconnected and warped as the narrator feels when dealing with sleep. First things first that was a lot … Continue reading → read full post >>

Hello everyone! My name is Abi Franceschetti and I am one of the many students in Rmst202. I think it is sort of cool that the course is structured like this where we write blog posts in a setting like this compared to canvas and all, so that will be exciting! Im a first year […] read full post >>

Marcel Proust’s Combray utilizes elegant and complex language to introduce the memory of the narrator. Although the work seems to be an autobiographical reflection on Proust’s own life, its classification is closer to that of a semi-autobiography in my opinion, as the descriptions used by him are associated with an extremely significant amount of details. […] read full post >>

This week’s reading was challenging for me to understand. The main concept I gravitated towards during “Combray” is his multifaceted relationship and/or reliance on his mother. This is what I want to further unpack (from my understanding) and question in my blog post this week. Marcel spends a lot of time reflecting on his past […] read full post >>

This week’s reading was a bit difficult for me to fully understand the message around the story. For my blog post this week, I decided to focus in on the message surrounding the authors desire for affection from his mother, and memories. A big theme for the story was the idea of memories. Proust touches …

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The first thing that stood out to me was the ‘invalid at midnight’. He is excited because he thinks he sees the light, that his ‘journey’ is over, but it is the servants turning off the lantern, and he will have to suffer the whole night. At first, I thought this had religious undertones, but […] read full post >>

Hello all, My name is Suroor Mansouri and I am a Psychology major in my third year, trying to cover avenues outside the scientific and neurological domains of my field. I have been taking numerous creative writing and literature classes to study how moods, themes, and senses that we study in psychology intertwine in prose. […] read full post >>

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When reading the "combray" part, I clearly understood the author's unique writing style and thus recorded some of my insights into the author's articles.The author takes his thoughts as the central point and combines his feelings and vague associations... read full post >>

When reading the "combray" part, I clearly understood the author's unique writing style and thus recorded some of my insights into the author's articles.The author takes his thoughts as the central point and combines his feelings and vague associations... read full post >>