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 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…
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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
This weeks assigned reading is Proust’s Swann’s Way, specifically “Combray”, a 1913 novel originally written in French. I initially had trouble getting into this book. I started off reading the introduction and writing notes about it, but I quickl…
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This weeks assigned reading is Proust’s Swann’s Way, specifically “Combray”, a 1913 novel originally written in French. I initially had trouble getting into this book. I started off reading the introduction and writing notes about it, but I quickl…
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“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were” Swann’s way is written in a way that tells two related stories, first of which revolves around young marcel, the younger version of the narrator and his memories and experiences of his childhood town ”Combray”.The narrator has waves of nostalgia and […]
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