In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower : In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Paperback)

from P_S_Patrick

I am unsure, having just finished this, as to whether or not I enjoyed reading it more than Swann's Way. Either way, this is quite a different book, though different in it's focus of narrative, rather than in the quality of the narrative, which is much the same. This book concentrates on Proust h...

from semckibbin

Spoilers throughout The title A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs is translated various ways. Moncrief's Within a Budding Grove sucks. Seriously, where are the girls and the play of light? I prefer Nabokov's more natural In the Shade of the Blooming Young Girls. My doubts about whether I am rea...

from semckibbin

Spoilers throughout The title A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs is translated various ways. Moncrief's Within a Budding Grove sucks. Seriously, where are the girls and the play of light? I prefer Nabokov's more natural In the Shade of the Blooming Young Girls. My doubts about whether I am rea...

from japaul22

In this second volume of [In Search of Lost Time], the narrator is now a teenager and accordingly is obsessed with girls. That pretty much sums it up, but I guess I'll go into a little more detail. :-) The first section is "Madame Swann at home". Here we see the narrator fall in and out of love ...

from P_S_Patrick

I am unsure, having just finished this, as to whether or not I enjoyed reading it more than Swann's Way. Either way, this is quite a different book, though different in it's focus of narrative, rather than in the quality of the narrative, which is much the same. This book concentrates on Proust h...