Starting off this course with Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way was both a challenging yet very interesting start. Reading Combray for me, almost felt like reading a memoir. I felt like I could visibly see Marcel’s experiences with the interactions he would have … Continue reading →
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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 […]
Like most of my classmates have stated in their posts about this week’s book, it’s definitely a more challenging read than expected. It felt slower and harder to get through than most books as there were parts I found slightly boring, and it took me a bit of time to get a feel of the […]
Posted in Blogs | Tagged with childhood, marcel proust, memory, nostalgia, Symbolism
Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was an interesting deep dive into the human experience of memory. Although I have come to appreciate how the writing style mimics the experience of being lost in thought so well, I found this week’s reading a little bit hard to follow. The style that Proust writes his book in makes for […]
Combray, Proust Combray by Marcel Proust overall gave me an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. It reminded me very much of, from what I can remember, being a child. I felt connected with these scenarios of family situations, being a child at family gatherings. You know who everything is, you know kind of what’s going on, […]
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with childhood, Freud, memory, nostalgia, smells
When I initially started reading the book, my first thoughts were of uncertainty. I deduced that the narrator was attempting to sleep but got drawn into a wormhole of memories, resulting in a sense of nostalgia coupled with anger over lost time (especially the loss of his mother’s goodnight kiss). However, this work may be […]
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“Combray” by Proust takes us through the nostalgia trip of our main character. This one was admittedly a harder read for me. I found myself passionately reading on and on with these very descriptive adjectives being thrown at me continuously. There were parts I found to be rather boring and others I found truly captivating. …
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with France, memory, nostalgia, week 2
My first thought when reading “Combray” by Marcel Proust was, why are these sentences so long? It wasn’t until I continued to read the novel and watch the video on Proust that I realized these unconventional grammatical rules and sentence structure were simply a part of modernism. The reason for the length of sentences became […]
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Bolaño’s “Amulet” caught my interest with its gripping first line – “This is going to be a horror story”. The narrator, Auxillo is an unlikely choice and voice of a book. She is far from ordinary; impulsive, thoughtful and ambivalent. … Continue reading →
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Manea’s “The Trenchcoat” stirred up some discomfort in me, given the ambiguous nature of the text, but it was certainly an enjoyable read. The discomfort came primarily from moving across the pages in an unfamiliar setting, with unfamiliar characters, in … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Manea | Tagged with Authoritarianism, communism, history, language, mundane life, nostalgia, political turmoil, suspicion
