Hello all, and welcome back to the cottage. I shall open today’s reflections with a quote: “I told myself I would have time to think of what to do” (Proust, 43). In fact, this is what I mistakenly thought when I assumed the first of these entries …
Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was definitely not an easy piece of literature to read, though I eventually found it to be more interesting than expected. At the beginning of the novel, I was already confused about whether he (Proust) was afraid to sleep or if it was a pleasurable activity. Overall, I believe Proust’s style of […]
Reading ‘Combray’ has left me confused but quite intrigued. I’ve only read up to the first part (page 48), and it took me a bit to figure out what was even going on. The narrator (whom I assume is Proust himself) keeps switching between past and present, and sometimes it’s hard to tell if he’s […]
First of all, I don’t think I’ve ever had to babysit a thought for more than a sentence, cause holy shit I think a sentence in Combray ran for a whole paragraph. I’ve never seen so many run-off sentences in one place without questioning if grammar was a suggestion at that point. HOWEVER, it lowkey […]
Reading this was not as easy as I thought it’d be, I felt as though I was fighting to get through sentences at some points. There are so many details in the writing I was becoming overloaded with information, so much so I’d often re-read and find myself dreaming of a cup of coffee or …
Before I begin this post, I want to preface that I enrolled in this class late and read up to the end of the first chapter (like the syllabus suggested). As a result, the thoughts I will be sharing are preliminary (until I finish the entire work by the Wednesday discussion). Upon reading, a number […]
Reading Combray felt less like reading a traditional story and more like slipping into someone else’s consciousness. What struck me most is how little actually “happens” on the surface, and yet how emotionally dense the book feels. Proust lingers on moments that most novels would rush past such as falling asleep, waking up confused, or […]
Hi all! To be honest, reading Proust, I definitely got lost sometimes due so I’d re-read the sentences quite often. Again, that might be just because I haven’t read something like this in a while. One thing that stood out to me is the way the narrator describes the character’s fascination with the architecture and […]
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It was a bit difficult for me to get into the groove of this book at first. It felt sort of personal reading this. I know we were reading from the narrator’s point of view, but I felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be. Ma…
It was a bit difficult for me to get into the groove of this book at first. It felt sort of personal reading this. I know we were reading from the narrator’s point of view, but I felt like I was somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be. Ma…
