Proust And Casares

Proust and Casares are have some similar styles of writing in their works Overture and The Invention of Morel. After reading these, some of the similarities are memory and consciousness/un consciousness. These aspects play a very important role in the books. Along with memory and consciousness/un consciousness, both narrators attempt to deceive the reader. There are certain parts where this is obvious and they must be doing it for some reason. Even though deception can be annoying, it makes it interesting because everyone has their own way of telling you what they exactly read. I think this style of writing is done mainly because it makes it more unique how everyone read the same story, but has different thoughts about it. I found Proust’s …show more content…
In The Invention of Morel, the narrator memorizes every step of this woman he is in love with, Faustine. He loves to follow her and spy on her because she makes him feel so happy. I found it interesting how he remembers every single step of hers. Literally every step of hers is known to the narrator. In a way it is creepy, but at the same time I think the narrator just wants attention from Faustine. It was intriguing how Casares deceived the reader to thinking there was a real woman on a diseased, abandon island, and then the reader was informed it was a life-like hologram being played in a loop. Unlike Proust remembering a time from his childhood, the narrator from The Invention of Morel remembers the actions of the holograms throughout the island. An example of a way Casares’s style attempts to manipulate the reader is with one of his editor notes. In the novel, the narrator states something that happened during the day. Then Casares put a note on the bottom of the page saying it was the first time this has occurred, but in the beginning of the book the reader was told this already happened. So as you can see, Casares goes out of his way to make the reader really think about what is going on on this mysterious …show more content…
Instead of consciousness, they experience a piece of their life for a week before it is loops back around and starts over. This is where the deception from Casares is, leading the reader on that there are ghosts or people on the island that can’t see him or that he is hallucinating due to his paranoia. Casares played many tricks on the readers that caused confusion. I had no clue what was going on when the narrator was looking at double moons and double suns at first. I thought that the narrator could have been dreaming, but thinking he was awake and stuck between consciousness/unconsciousness and then put those dreams into his journal as if they were actually happening in real life. It is interesting to see a fugitive, paranoid man basically lose his mind. Although the narrator knew Faustine was a projection, it still did not stop him from seeing his love. She seemed like his dream girl and perhaps when he looked at her it was as if he was in a dream. A woman so perfect for him and the fact that he is so in love with her, he could of felt like he was in a dream. When you put it into perspective, this man has not seen anyone for months and when he finally sees this woman, it changes his life. I think that when the narrator “hangouts” with her, it is intoxicating for him and he could lose sight of what he is actually