One theme that I found interesting in the novel was the theme of transition. Agostino is often caught between childhood and adulthood and expresses the want to enter the next stage of his life by doing more “adult” things. I think the moment when he isn’t allowed into the home at the end of the […]
Alberto Moravia, Agostino
The Shrouded Woman by Bombal was this weeks required reading, which is sort like a series of vignettes inspired one by one by different people who have come to visit this dead woman at her funeral, and is then told from her perspective. I think just the premise of this kind of novel seems to […]
This week’s reading was much better than the last one in my opinion. I found it easier to follow along but also extremely entertaining. I want to share my favourite paragraph from the reading. “I seemed to see her outside of time and space, on a dark, dry plain,with a sky so blue it was […]
The work of Proust is a reflection of revisiting childhood memories, revealing the inherent inconsistencies that underscore our limited understanding as children. Essentially, it brings upon many ideas of what it’s like to look back upon the memories you have as a child. The inconsistencies, for example, show how small our minds were and our […]
Im sure you can tell from the title that much like the other people in this course, I did not enjoy the writing style of this book. But before I jump into ranting about it, I’ll talk about some more interesting aspects of the book first. The flow and focus of this books features a […]
Combray is a nostalgic story filled with detailed descriptions of the narrator’s childhood memories. What I found myself enjoying the most was the narrator’s ability to describe his memories with such detail that it made envisioning Combray very …
Combray is a nostalgic story filled with detailed descriptions of the narrator’s childhood memories. What I found myself enjoying the most was the narrator’s ability to describe his memories with such detail that it made envisioning Combray very …
Marcel Proust’s “Combray,” the first part of his exceptional work “In Search of Lost Time,” is a testament to a unique stream of consciousness that takes us through different passages of time and a complex web of memory. The immaculate writing style and narrative of the author invite the readers on a journey through the […]
After reading the first page of this book, I realized that this work is very different from all the other books I have read before. Confusion is my first impression that I had regarding this book. I noticed that I would zone out and get lost as I read, and initially it would be slightly […]
