We’ve all been there: staring at a sentence so long it feels like a marathon, wondering if we’ve forgotten how to read. That was my perspective when reading “Combray”. I’ll be honest, I spent a significant amount of time rereading paragraphs, looking it up on google, and questioning if I was “doing it wrong.” But […]
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From my perspective, Combray, written by Proust, is a wonderful mental journey back into the memories of the past. It all started with the narrator lying on the bed, half-dreaming, half-recalling the moments when he was still in Combray during his childhood. It was not a hard book to read for me, but since the […]
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Having just landed in Vancouver today, I looked at all the assignments I had due this week and found out this blog post was due yesterday, much to my dismay. Fighting the impending jet lag, I went to purchase “Swann’s Way” by Proust and began my reading. Having no expectations or any context of this […]
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Hi everyone 🙂 My name is Fatima Mudassar, and I’m a 3rd-year Cognitive Systems major with a minor in Economics here at UBC. I’m also an international student from Lahore, Pakistan, and I can speak 3 languages fluently; Urdu, Punjabi, and English. I made the decision to take RMST 202 because I’m really curious about […]
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Let me just start off by saying that that was not even remotely what I expected. This felt like a fever dream, I have reread sections and still don’t totally know what the point of some of that was. It felt like it was flitting back and forth between things, or going on tangents, and […]
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I had no background on this book at all going into it which is something I will do sometimes before starting a novel to get the a feeling for it before diving right in. In the beginning I was definitely a little bit lost in what or who Proust was writing about. What or who […]
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Reading the first chapter of Swann’s Way honestly felt like being stuck inside someone’s thoughts at 2 a.m. when you’re half asleep and everything is weird and blurry. At first I kept waiting for something to actually happen, but it’s more like Proust just lets you float around inside the narrator’s head. I didn’t really […]
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With it being such a long time since I’ve read what I think can be counted as literature, I had hoped the Introduction would give me some clarity and guidance. However, I was intimidated by its very first sentence (╥‸╥) Everything it referenced as being so well known within contemporary Western culture were things I […]
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In a novel, I find that I tend to look for easy reading – something that I can pass my time with, and enjoy my time while it’s also quite light to read. I look for a setting and perspective. Contrarily, Proust’s novel immediately dived into the narrator discussing his dreams, which had me questioning, […]
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Marcel Proust’s “Combray” was definitely not an easy piece of literature to read, though I eventually found it to be more interesting than expected. At the beginning of the novel, I was already confused about whether he (Proust) was afraid to sleep or if it was a pleasurable activity. Overall, I believe Proust’s style of […]
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