A conversation with Farid Laroussi
Hello! Introduction My name is Puneet Dulla and I am from Surrey, BC. I was born and raised in Surrey which is not to far out from Vancouver. I commute to and from UBC which is not as bad as it may seem. I am a second year student here at UBC and I am […]
Marcel Proust, “Combray”
Questions on “Combray”
blog#8 – the burden of Names — Georges Perec’s book ‘W, or The Memory of Childhood’ was by far the book with the most interesting formatting. (Out of the books that I’ve read for this class anyway). The two parallel stories and the switching back-and-forth took a lot of getting used to, and admittedly, I […]
Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood examines themes of memory, childhood, and war through two unique separate stories….
This novel confronts the theme of memory quite differently than the others we’ve previously read. Most of the texts I’d read before this speak from a point of memory, past-tense, and experience, whereas Perec approached memories that weren’t there. It brought an alternate perspective of how some have the privilege of accessing and reflecting on […]
I decided to look up the author, as I do with most of what I read, and was surprised to find that Françoise Sagan was only 18 years old when she published Bonjour Tristesse. Also that it was her first novel and is her most popular novel ever published. This was inspiring to find. That […]
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan was a bittersweet book about Cecile, a 17-year-old girl, as she grows up and learns…
