I found Marcel Proust’s “Combray” to be really interesting. It made me think about how dreams can be intertwined with memories. The opening of the story portrayed how the author was walking through memory lane and how dreams are associated with r…
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I found Marcel Proust’s “Combray” to be really interesting. It made me think about how dreams can be intertwined with memories. The opening of the story portrayed how the author was walking through memory lane and how dreams are associated with r…
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I had no background on this book at all going into it which is something I will do sometimes before starting a novel to get the a feeling for it before diving right in. In the beginning I was definitely a little bit lost in what or who Proust was writing about. What or who […]
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Reading Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was a very different experience than I expected. The first thing that stood out to me was the style of the writing. The sentences are famously long and detailed, which can be a bit overwhelming at times. However, once I got into the flow, I realized that this “dreamy” way of […]
First off, not a fan. I found this to be a hard read. There was a lot of fluff in the first part, well in both parts, but I feel like it was worse in the first part. I read … Continue reading →
I honestly don’t know where to start. In my introductory blog I mentioned that I initially took this course to complete a requirement and that how I now see it as a way to get back into the habit of reading books. This is literally the best and worst book to start with. I’m being […]
Well that was something, wasn’t it. I remember discussing how literature sometimes makes us feel stupid. And boy was I lost in those words. The first ten pages feel like a fever dream where there was a bunch of random things happening without knowing w…
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Well that was something, wasn’t it. I remember discussing how literature sometimes makes us feel stupid. And boy was I lost in those words. The first ten pages feel like a fever dream where there was a bunch of random things happening without knowing w…
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Reading the first chapter of Swann’s Way honestly felt like being stuck inside someone’s thoughts at 2 a.m. when you’re half asleep and everything is weird and blurry. At first I kept waiting for something to actually happen, but it’s more like Proust just lets you float around inside the narrator’s head. I didn’t really […]
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For this course’s first reading, Combray by Marcel Proust, I was met with the challenge of breaking down an individual’s thoughts as he recounted his life in an extremely detail oriented manner. As Proust recounted his story, he situated himself within…
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