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Orhan’s
average rating for
2023
4.1
4.1
Proust structures a simple and lifelike plot in his veiled autobiography of his adolescent impressions and perceptions of love. Even though the plot's events, to an extent, are foreseeable and their intensity softened, Proust's narrative, on the other hand, is depicted in a wide array of colors, most often hazy, with various shapes and silhouettes, oftentimes distorted. He recollects his youthful encounters and subsequent reflections through a me
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In this last volume of In Search of Lost Time we read about the declining years of the characters that surrounded the story. We learn from the author how the evocations of his past and the people that surrounded his life have, in his final years, materialized themselves into a single character that embodied those memories.
Since the "past is like a photographic darkroom encumbered with innumerable negatives which remain useless because their intel ...more
Since the "past is like a photographic darkroom encumbered with innumerable negatives which remain useless because their intel ...more