Marcel Proust's Combray "Swann's Way"
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. We experience narrative time with reason, and we have a sensory experience with seeing and touching, etc. This Novel also ventures into habit and memory; involuntary memory puts us in touch with pure time as we cannot repeat the same experience. The narrator realizes how he has wasted his life and that the only way to regain time is to go over memories and become an artist. This book is about a book being written with habit and disruption of habit. For example, the habit of falling asleep aware of your surroundings; in the first scene, the narrator waits for his mother to give him a good-night kiss before falling into a deep sleep. The boy starts to envy his father, which I think about when I get into the story. The narrator...