I really thought that after Proust, the texts would get significantly more comprehensible. Wrong. I can’t even articulate my thoughts through the entire beginning of the text on here because it includes so much profanity. It’s entirely possible that I’m missing something because where does the whole play from the start come into relevance? I […]
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When I read the starting section of combray, I felt as if I drifted out of consciousness. It was less about just reading and following a story. It was more about being immersed in the words of the narrator. From the beginning everything felt very unstable with the room blurring into another and time slipping […]
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When I started reading Nadja, I honestly thought I was doing something wrong. I kept flipping pages, waiting for the moment where everything would click, where a storyline would emerge or where I’d finally understand what I was supposed to be paying attention to. That moment never really came. Instead, the book felt like being […]
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Nadja by Breton was definitely interesting and different to read. It reminded me a lot of Proust and I felt like the difficulty of reading it was similar to Proust. This is because both the books were difficult to read and keep up with and they both were quite different from the form of writing […]
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It felt like I flew through this book in comparison to Proust’s Combray. I especially enjoyed the beginning when Silvio was a thief so I was a little disappointed when he had to get a job. I guess not as disappointed as him though… Looking at this world through the eyes of Silvio is quite […]
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While reading Mad Toy, one of the first things I noticed was how uncomfortable and raw the novel feels. Arlt doesn’t try to make Silvio Astier likeable or heroic, and that actually made the story more interesting for me. Silvio is intelligent and imaginative, but he’s also resentful, impulsive, and often self-sabotaging. Instead of a […]
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At the beginning, I found it strange that the text starts with a detailed description of the state of sleep — especially focusing on his conscious experience between being awake and asleep. Why would the author spend so much time on what, on the face value, seems to be just a man waking up in […]
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When I first picked up this book and started reading, I literally had no idea what was going on. I kept sitting there waiting for something to happen, be it a plot, a conflict, or anything that would make me understand the storyline better. Instead, it felt like I had opened someone’s diary and was […]
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Proust seems to have used a new approach to narrating by using external action instead of internal conciousness. Instead of starting off with a generic sequential approach to narrating, the reading goes into passages of semi wakefulness, and disorients me with scattered pieces of his memory. which shows that the narrator is not stable or […]
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Nadja was a very interesting read and builds onto the Proust reading we did last week, especially in terms of me stepping into a form of writing I’m not very familiar with. This book is very disconnected and doesn’t seem to follow a typical storyline comprised of a beginning, middle and end. Nadja is my […]
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