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Ontological Fiction in Maria Luisa Bombal

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

Why Proust Takes Childhood Seriously

Marcel Proust

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If I’m being 100 percent honest, this book was a harder read than I expected. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t sat down and read a proper book in a while or if the pacing was extremely slow. I found myself constantly constantly staring at the same paragraph for 15 minutes, restarting it […]

Nadja : Love or An attachment to survive the lows of life?

 I found Nadja interesting because I felt that it had some similarities with Proust in how the story utilizes a lot of internal monologue and internal thought processes. This parallel of self-identity and figuring out memories is intriguing. Putti…

Nadja : Love or An attachment to survive the lows of life?

 I found Nadja interesting because I felt that it had some similarities with Proust in how the story utilizes a lot of internal monologue and internal thought processes. This parallel of self-identity and figuring out memories is intriguing. Putti…

Nadja in the very unorganized stacks

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The stacks are toppling already–not the best of signs, but hopefully I should be able to get these tremors under control with a good spell of focus. I won’t dally with describing the organizationa…

Nadja in the very unorganized stacks

 Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. The stacks are toppling already–not the best of signs, but hopefully I should be able to get these tremors under control with a good spell of focus. I won’t dally with describing the organizationa…

3. Being Intelligent is a Bad Career Move

I think everyone took a long drawn sigh of relief reading this after Proust.