Hi, All. I hope everyone has had a great weekend! We were assigned to read Combray’s “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust this week. This Novel is exciting in the way it captures a recreation of time past. In this Novel, we see different types of time. …
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Hi, All. I hope everyone has had a great weekend! We were assigned to read Combray’s “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust this week. This Novel is exciting in the way it captures a recreation of time past. In this Novel, we see different types of time. …
Posted in Blogs, Proust | Tagged with Aunt Leonie, habit, memory, perspective, time, voyeurism, windows
Huh? That was my initial thought when I started reading this section. It seemed like the author was saying some profound things, but in all honesty they flew over my head. I had a hard time following what he was saying, but after re-reading some of the lines it started to make sense (a bit). […]
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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This week’s reading, Marcel Proust’s Combray, was very challenging for me to get through. This book was very different compared to anything I’m used to reading. With the book’s heavy details and symbolism, I had a very hard time trying to stay engaged …
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This week’s reading, Marcel Proust’s Combray, was very challenging for me to get through. This book was very different compared to anything I’m used to reading. With the book’s heavy details and symbolism, I had a very hard time trying to stay engaged …
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Proust’s “Combray” was definitely challenging for me to follow along, with its lengthy sentences and extremely detailed descriptions of his own memories. I found the plot dreary at first. That said, I appreciated how Proust depicts the scenes where he drowns in his own thoughts, creating a gloomy atmosphere right from the start that signals […]
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“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, along, frailer but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, smell and taste still remain from a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, upon the ruins of all the rest, bearing without giving away, on […]
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“And in the same way, also, the thoughts of the dying are quite often turned toward the aspect of death that is real, painful, dark, visceral, toward the underside of death, which is in fact the side it presents to them and so harshly makes them feel, and which more closely resembles a crushing burden, […]
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I must say, from the beginning, I didn’t particularly enjoy reading this novel. Proust’s run-on sentences with extreme descriptions left me in a bit of a dreary state with my attention drifting in and out of the words. However, considering how th…
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