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Novels about synaesthesia

From:     Remi
Category: Books
Date:     06 September 2006
Time:     05:47 PM

Review:

I have read a few novels that deal with synaesthesia (confusion of senses) and have been 
somewhat disappointed by them. The characters and the narrator did not have much to say 
about the condition, which has led me to believe that it is not of much consequence. Perhaps it 
just adds a pretty metaphorical field to your life. My hopes were much greater after having read 
the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud who very evocatively incorporate synaesthesia into the 
their poems. I must say, though, that Nabokov's autobiography (who was a synaesthete) was 
remarkably visual and managed to convey moods and descriptions with so much immediacy that 
you felt you were there. Still, it doesn't bring me any closer to writing the conclusion to my 
article. Back to the drawing board..


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