The very first emotion when I finished this reading was enjoyment and a little excitement. Because the book takes readers through fluctuational stories along with emotional up and down. The book consists of two storylines; a fictional story about an island called “W” and a story based on the narrator’s own childhood memory. The contrast […]
This week I read W, or the Memory of Childhood. The structure of this novel was very unique, two books in one. As readers, we were challenged to see how the two fit together and decide if they did at … Continue reading →
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Georges Perec’s W, or the Memory of Childhood reveals the irreparable experience of trauma in rather mysterious ways. When reading it, I feel that the entire novel is associated with a special technique frequently used in filmmaking, named montage. Perec used different locations, perspectives, and narrative methods to enhance the willingness of the readers’ deep […]
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If I were to pick a word that reflects this story, I would choose “remember”. The narrator uses the word remember consistently throughout this book to introduce his certainty about a specific memory, for example: “I have a vague memory” “I don’t have a precise memory” “I do not remember” “I can hardly remember”, all […]
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This book was beautiful and vivid! It was truly a pleasant read for me. The run-on sentences had me stumble a few times, but made for truly lively imagery. My favourite line of imagery is ‘a drop of oil would run straight down her back’ (p. 169). At the end, I was wondering how Natalia’s […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blogs, Laforet, Sagan | Tagged with confidence, empowerment, France, memory, modernism, modernity, Romance text, sexuality, teenage thoughts, teenager
Hi Everyone! I am going to be reflecting on Bombal’s The Shrouded Woman in this week’s post. I have to…
Posted in Blogs, Bombal, Proust | Tagged with memory, reflective, thoughts
This was my first time reading any of Proust’s works and I started reading feeling a little uncertain about how much I would understand and enjoy the reading. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how well the book flowed and … Continue reading →
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Marcel Proust’s Combray utilizes elegant and complex language to introduce the memory of the narrator. Although the work seems to be an autobiographical reflection on Proust’s own life, its classification is closer to that of a semi-autobiography in my opinion, as the descriptions used by him are associated with an extremely significant amount of details. […]
