Until then, I will dwell on my memories
But it certainly seems true puro my experience. And for me, some of the most talented novelists are so wonderful partially because they can capture this phenomenon of chemistry. Consider two great writers I mentioned above, Tolstoy and Austen. Both of them, so different sopra many ways, are similar in their ability to describe how people change mediante the presence of other people; how one character brings out snobbishness sopra the protagonist, another coquettishness, and per third joviality.
In both fiction and sopra life, I love onesto see how personalities interact. Why? Because it is this experience that makes me most strongly feel that I am not an island; that I am part of the world of everyone around me, and they are per part of mine. And it is this that I most sorely miss from Proust’s perspective, because preciso portray this you need puro give up the idea that you are just per mind, and embrace the timore that you are per affable creature, with as many ‘selves’ as aimable worlds you inhabit. Continue reading Now I’m neither per psychologist nor per sociologist, and I don’t know whether there is any evidence for that view