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on Proust!
Posted by: Nerissa Lin
Combray took me quite a while to finish reading. read full post >>
touché combray…
Posted by: amandacarr
Alright! I have my thesaurus open and I’m ready to overuse it. My first impressions reading ‘Combray’ is that I find myself re-reading a lot. Maybe i’ve fallen out of practice but if so, i’m glad this is the start of me rebuilding my trains of thought. Note 1 – The authors writing feels more […] read full post >>
Hrooonk, mimimimimimi… or not?
Posted by: jumarkakis
Hello again blog :)) So….. Combray huh….. When I read the part of the introduction that says Proust’s texts are known to be complex because of his “famously long sentences”, I braced myself for a text full of sentences that an English teacher would be disappointed at. But reading this book and seeing one sentence […] read full post >>
Proust…zzzzz
Posted by: Catrin
I’m currently on the 7th page of Proust’s Combray and it’s making me feel quite sleepy. All this talk of sleep is making me wish I was in my bed instead of at school. Now I’m on page 11, and considering having a little nap. I feel I should be grateful for the ability to […] read full post >>
A book I am not entirely sure I understand
Posted by: marihnav
We’ve all been there: staring at a sentence so long it feels like a marathon, wondering if we’ve forgotten how to read. That was my perspective when reading “Combray”. I’ll be honest, I spent a significant amount of time rereading paragraphs, looking it up on google, and questioning if I was “doing it wrong.” But […] read full post >>
Travel to the past with Proust
Posted by: Vincie
From my perspective, Combray, written by Proust, is a wonderful mental journey back into the memories of the past. It all started with the narrator lying on the bed, half-dreaming, half-recalling the moments when he was still in Combray during his childhood. It was not a hard book to read for me, but since the […] read full post >>
Hectic Reading
Posted by: Adrian Chan
Having just landed in Vancouver today, I looked at all the assignments I had due this week and found out this blog post was due yesterday, much to my dismay. Fighting the impending jet lag, I went to purchase “Swann’s Way” by Proust and began my reading. Having no expectations or any context of this […] read full post >>
Introduction
Posted by: Fatima Mudassar
Hi everyone 🙂 My name is Fatima Mudassar, and I’m a 3rd-year Cognitive Systems major with a minor in Economics here at UBC. I’m also an international student from Lahore, Pakistan, and I can speak 3 languages fluently; Urdu, Punjabi, and English. I made the decision to take RMST 202 because I’m really curious about […] read full post >>
