I can’t believe that I am writing the last blog post for this course. This course was something very different from the other courses that I have taken so far but honestly speaking I kind of liked the whole contract grading system as it gave us the freedom to choose the grades that we want […]
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To be honest, I found this novel really confusing. I didn’t dislike it, but I didn’t like it either. So please excuse me if I am not as insightful as I would want to be. In Mexico City, a lady contemplates her history while in a house and a marriage she cannot truly occupy or […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with confused, contrast, death, identity, memories, nostalgia, Valeria Luiselli
I was really excited about reading this book and finished it in one sitting. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It takes the number one spot for me dethroning The Time of Doves. The Lover, a novel about exploration of identity with a hint of coming-of-age, will stay with me for a while. Let’s address the elephant […]
Posted in Blogs, Duras | Tagged with COA, coming of age, Dysfunctional Family, family, Forbidden, France, identity, Indochina, Lolita, love, Marguerite Duras, melancholy, nostalgia, Personal Growth, poverty, The Lover, Vietnam
Maria Luisa Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman” revolves around the life of Ana María, a woman from an aristocratic Chilean family. The novel is structured around Ana María’s funeral, where she narrates her story from within the coffin, providing insight into her thoughts, emotions, and experiences. While Ana María is physically dead, her soul and awareness […]
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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 […]
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I would like to start off by saying I really had no idea what I was getting myself into as I started reading “Combray” by Marcel Proust but, I will say that I was both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised. As with almost all things, “Combray” had both pros and cons, both of which I would […]
After finishing the book “Combray” by Proust, I found myself thinking about my nostalgic memories from the past. The narrative provided a rich tapestry of memories and sensations which transported me into the depths of the narrator’s childhood experiences in the French town of Combray. Though the writing was less structured with meandering prose and […]
Proust uses drawn out monologues to convey moments of unconscious remembering’s to the reader which point towards feelings of nostalgia and love. I found the narrators dialogues very captivating yet confusing at times. It felt as if …
Proust uses drawn out monologues to convey moments of unconscious remembering’s to the reader which point towards feelings of nostalgia and love. I found the narrators dialogues very captivating yet confusing at times. It felt as if …
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust. The first chapter of the book, ‘Combray’, felt like those long dreams that seem to never end, especially with the way it was written. The never-ending, lengthy sentences felt difficult to read but I liked that aspect because it felt like it was spoken by a person hit with a […]
