There’s one common thread in existing discussion about “Combray” that I saw: the book’s difficulty in reading. I agree, it’s a challenging read in the forever long sentences and vivid descriptions of everything and constantly shifting focal points. And as the lecture and conversation video mentions, the story is temporally vague. While there is […]
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I would like to share my feelings after
reading Combray! I found it hard to read. It is like I know
most of the words, but when words come together, I could not
understand them anymore. As Professor Beasley-Murray mentions in the lecture…
Sorry if the cuts are bad, the first second of each clip was cut for some reason. It will be better next time.
My question: What does the “in-betweenness” add to the story and reading of the text?
-LS
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To be honest, what I got out of reading Proust was immense, incredibly detailed and vivid descriptions of the sort of scene Proust wants us to imagine. This book was particularly challenging for me. I could hardly understand what I was reading in…
When I started reading the Proust I was so confused. Honestly throughout the whole reading I was really confused but I eventually accepted my fate. It really brought me back to when we were talking about feeling stupid about literature in class. I found that I had to keep rereading to understand what was going on but eventually I gave…
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At last, I have finished Marcel Proust’s Combray. Forty-nine pages felt like a lifetime, and I attribute this to there being sentences that went on for longer than this blog post. Apparently, using periods wasn’t common practice in early 20th century France and semicolons were all the rage. I did enjoy it though I think, […]
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At first, reading the beginning of Proust had me confused but after listening to the lecture video, I realized that reading it is like you are following the ins and outs of someone’s memory and different sensory triggers trigger different m…
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Getting into the flow of this book was difficult. I struggled with understanding the metaphors that were being used to describe the quality of his sleep. However, as this scene proceeded, I found myself empathizing. The interrupted sleep, the nightmare that was his great-uncle pulling his curls, this was all relatable on some level –though […]
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Greetings fellow classmates! My name is Adrian, and I’m a fourth-year student pursuing a combined degree in Economics and Statistics, with a minor in Data Science. While my primary academic focus revolves around quantitative analysis and predictive modeling, I have always been deeply fascinated by the qualitative narratives that shape human societies. This is what […]
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The Ridington Room has great reading chairs with an outside view, an old school room with imposing portraits and silence!
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