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“She declared that they [her childhood compositions] were terribly dull because of their length and the scope I gave to digressions. This is a fault I’ve retained, I’m told; for my part, I confess that I’m almost unaware of what I do, and that I have today the same irrepressible abandon in such storytelling that I had when I was four” (Chapter One).
— Jan 20, 2025 09:51PM
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Alyssa Cohen
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“Even as I write, this theory is still being discussed…According to it, the novel is a work of poetry as much as analysis. Authentic, even real, characters and situations are required, ranged about a figure who must exemplify the chief feeling or idea of the book. This figure usually represents passionate love, for almost all novels are love stories…Is this theory valid?” (Chapter Eleven)
— Feb 13, 2025 09:51AM
Alyssa Cohen
is on page 25 of 1184
“Not to work so that my eyes would sparkle; not to run and play in the sun when God’s good sun attracts me so; […] to doom myself to be clumsy and feeble; never to tire myself, when everything urges me to use up my energy; to live, in short, under a bell jar; to be neither burned, nor chapped, nor faded before my time—such things were always impossible for me” (Chapter One).
— Jan 20, 2025 10:14AM
Alyssa Cohen
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Well the one I’m reading is “translated and adapted by Dan Hofstadter.”
— Jan 19, 2025 09:09PM
