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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..