The strongest impression this book gave me is synesthetic memory. Proust often uses sensations like taste, sound, and visual images to trigger memories, which makes the story move back and forth along the timeline. When I first started reading, I felt a bit confused and dizzy, because I couldn’t always tell whether he was talking […]
Hi everyone! I’m a 3rd year student currently pursuing a major in Economics and a minor in Commerce. This being nothing related to those fields, I’m taking this course to mainly to fill the literature requirement but at the same time felt like this course would be an interesting time. It’s not every day you […]
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Why does nothing happen in Combray and why that matters
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Mad Toy: very fun read, did it in a day. Other blogs and the lecture have alluded to the idea that every chapter is centered around books and knowledge in connection to good society’s system. And related to this, every chapter is structured around Silvio’s failure to obtain or use this knowledge, as mentioned in […]
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What really stood out to me after reading the book and watching conversation and lecture videos was a point mentioned where Nadja functions as a projection of the narrator’s inner disorder or insecurity. It’s so evidently put, a void in the narrator’s …
What really stood out to me after reading the book and watching conversation and lecture videos was a point mentioned where Nadja functions as a projection of the narrator’s inner disorder or insecurity. It’s so evidently put, a void in the narrator’s …
jan 16, 2026 When I was reading Combray I felt quite confused, I couldn’t seem to grasp any sort of main idea or plot that the writer was going on and on about. My first reaction after reading the first twenty pages or so was that the sentences were very long and many times by […]
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I quite liked reading this book but there was a slight debate in my mind at first as to whether Nadja was a real woman because of how the author portrays her more as a concept rather than literal person. From what I gathered from the book is that…
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I quite liked reading this book but there was a slight debate in my mind at first as to whether Nadja was a real woman because of how the author portrays her more as a concept rather than literal person. From what I gathered from the book is that…
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