Swann's Way : Remembrance of Things Past (Paperback)

from msf59

"To think that I've wasted years of my life, that I've longed to die, that I've experienced my greatest love, for a woman who didn't appeal to me, who wasn't even my type." “The comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation” I have now read Proust. That would earn a quizzical, somewhat bemu...

from m.belljackson

Okay, you read Proust's first paragraphs and may have thought "Well, Proust isn't so difficult at all...." Then, up pops "metempychosis" to send many of us to a dictionary where we still may be puzzled, notably contrasting it with reincarnation. (Poe would hav loved this!) Next, one may be lull...

from SeriousGrace

The theme of remembering: the way a cake tastes when dipped in tea, an involuntary memory when least expected. Like that first kiss, we spend our lifetimes trying to recreate all of the sensations of that fist time. It is impossible to do. Proust has a sensory understanding of the world at large ...

from Castlelass

“How paradoxical it is to seek in reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.” Published in 1913, Swann's Way is the first installment of Marcel Proust's seven-volume In Search of Lost Time. It is a book that is oriented toward memory and finding oneself in many different ways. It ...

from etxgardener

Marcel Proust's multi-volume Remembrance of Things Past is almost a long-running joke on books one has heard of that are deemed masterpieces, but seldom if ever read. After tackling Swann's Way, I can appreciate the sentiment because while Proust's writing is truly amazing, he does go on and on a...