When I first started reading this novel, I was a little confused and intimidated by what the author was trying to convey. But as the story progressed, I found that the author was someone who was interested in poetry and loved writing about the events that occurred in his life or that he witnessed. After […]
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Hello Everyone! Welcome back to week 2, and let me introduce you to Nadja, a woman written by the author André Breton. This book is about a man who becomes obsessed with this woman he met in Paris, Nadja, and his account of his experiences with her, and his thoughts about her. One thing about […]
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Impressions My first impression upon reading Combray was that it is one perplexing piece of literature, especially given that it is the first one we are reading. Not only was I met with a spiral of confusion, but also I would feel lost with the more pages I frantically read, although there were some parts […]
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with Attachment, Bond, love
“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 […]
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I particularly enjoyed this week’s reading, especially his fresh narrative style. It allowed me to dive deep into my thoughts and emotions when looking at the characters. The way Proust uses super-rich descriptive language quickly de…
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with desires, love, memory, swanns way, time
I particularly enjoyed this week’s reading, especially his fresh narrative style. It allowed me to dive deep into my thoughts and emotions when looking at the characters. The way Proust uses super-rich descriptive language quickly de…
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with desires, love, memory, swanns way, time
Hello everyone, I would like to begin my blog post with discussing the introduction of Combray written by Proust. There are three main posts I found most interesting. To begin, this novel is not his thoughts but his world as a whole, both his voluntary and involuntary memory. It is similar to a biography […]
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Well, this is it, the end of the line but the beginning of more journeys through novel reading and such. Although I dropped the ball with this course I still had a memorable experience and learned so many things with novel reading. More importantly, it gave me a newfound love for reading, and authors like […]
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After reading Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend”, a novel I found out late is the first in a four part series titled the “Neapolitan novels”, I found myself completely spellbound and enraptured by a novel in a way that I hadn’t been in a while. On its surface this feeling perplexed me, as I found […]
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In this final week of class, I have chosen to read The Society of Reluctant Dreamers, which I found was an interesting story that ties in dreams, memories, and politics: the rich that benefit, the poor that suffer, and the quiet ones. The novel starts out with Daniel Benchimol who was getting a divorce from […]
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