The taste of a tea-soaked madeleine cookie pulls Proust back through his own memories to his childhood; discuss similar experiences you may have had featuring sights, sounds, tastes, textures etcetera that made you remember things past. 2. Proust can take the simplest act of trying to fall asleep and turning over in bed and stretch it out for several introspective paragraphs; what thoughts did you have while you were reading these? Does his literary style appeal to you? Why or why not?
The taste of a tea-soaked madeleine cookie pulls Proust back through
his own memories to his childhood; discuss similar experiences you may have had featuring sights, sounds, tastes, textures etcetera that made you remember things past.
2. Proust can take the simplest act of trying to fall asleep and turning over in bed and stretch it out for several introspective paragraphs; what thoughts did you have while you were reading these? Does his literary style appeal to you? Why or why not?