Hi Everyone! For this week’s reading I will be making a blog post on Proust’s Swann’s Way. To be completely honest, I have only read the first fifteen pages so far and I keep putting it off because of the difficulty. I have stopped reading and had to come back to it several times. I […]
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Before I begin this post, I want to preface that I enrolled in this class late and read up to the end of the first chapter (like the syllabus suggested). As a result, the thoughts I will be sharing are preliminary (until I finish the entire work by the Wednesday discussion). Upon reading, a number […]
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Reading Combray felt less like reading a traditional story and more like slipping into someone else’s consciousness. What struck me most is how little actually “happens” on the surface, and yet how emotionally dense the book feels. Proust lingers on moments that most novels would rush past such as falling asleep, waking up confused, or […]
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My name is Marianah, but when it comes to last names, I never really know what to say. I come from a deeply multicultural family: a German grandfather, an Italian grandmother, a Colombian mother, and a Canadian father, so you can imagine how peculiar my family reunions are. This mix of cultures and histories that […]
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WOW this text was hard to read. I found myself getting lost and having to re-read sections an embarrassing amount of times. As I mentioned in my introduction, I don’t pick up books written before the 1980s so staying attentive the whole time and trying to navigate Proust’s long, winding sentences within this book was […]
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Why is Proust considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century? I would like to talk more about this in class, and the themes of Combray. While at times I couldn’t understand what was being said, I could still get a sense of it. For example: […]
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Well, that was a very interesting read! I particularly enjoyed the descriptiveness used by Proust which I believe succeeded in painting a picture book of the emotions he aimed to convey. This text was kind of difficult to read ngl, because it had very very long sentences (which were basically paragraphs to be honest). Despite […]
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When I started reading the Proust I was so confused. Honestly throughout the whole reading I was really confused but I eventually accepted my fate. It really brought me back to when we were talking about feeling stupid about literature in class. I found that I had to keep rereading to understand what was going on but eventually I gave…
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At last, I have finished Marcel Proust’s Combray. Forty-nine pages felt like a lifetime, and I attribute this to there being sentences that went on for longer than this blog post. Apparently, using periods wasn’t common practice in early 20th century France and semicolons were all the rage. I did enjoy it though I think, […]
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Hi hi hi. I’m Shreya, and this is me thinking out loud in real time. I’m a 4th-year Psychology major, and it’s my last semester here, which is exciting, terrifying, and makes my nervous system go a little haywire if I think about it for too long. But that’s a later-me problem. For now: WOOOOO […]
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