Combray by Marcel Proust, the first text I have ever encountered of such a descriptive, narrative nature. I found the book especially hard to consume due to, what I found to be, increasingly complicated and elaborate descriptions of the world. This took form in the shape of extremely long sentences, heavy use of adjectives and …
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Hey everyone! The assigned reading for this week was “Combray” by Marcel Proust. Before I started reading, I didn’t think it would be as difficult as it was to get through this reading. I found it to be a bit hard to read because of the long…
Hey everyone! The assigned reading for this week was “Combray” by Marcel Proust. Before I started reading, I didn’t think it would be as difficult as it was to get through this reading. I found it to be a bit hard to read because of the long…
Marcel Proust meticulously described the town of Combray and I maybe loved it. While his drawn out monologues took several tries to decipher, the beauty he found in life’s simplicities helped me immerse myself into his childhood home. I’m not sure if any of you also relate but I found myself at times having to […]
Hey everyone! I’m so excited to do this first blog entry and get started with the course! This week’s reading, Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was genuinely like stepping into a whole new universe and was so different compared to anything I’ve read before. It was tough and there were moments of difficulty reading the text but […]
Initially delving into the pages of Proust’s “Combray” was confusing and complex for me, his text definitely requires a slow and careful read. I found his storytelling to be similar to a puzzle, a bit perplexing but equally enchanting. However, upon further reading, and being able to understand the text, I enjoyed the chaoticness of […]
Marcel Proust has written a truly in-depth and meticulously detailed story with Swann’s Way. When I first began reading the chapter Combray, I honestly resented it a bit. This is because every sentence seemed to be enriched with too much detail. It was confusing to read or fully immerse myself in the next. More frustratingly, I was flip-flopping […]
“Combray” by Marcel Proust is easily a book that can be understood and interpreted in many ways. First I will begin by saying that I did not enjoy the writing structure of novel, the long and extreme descriptive writing made it hard to follow the narrative at some points. In the first part alone, many […]
