Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One) (Paperback)

from dchaikin

This isn't a review so much as response. With Proust, anything deeper is beyond me. And even just a description is tough in the sense that his writing creates its own atmosphere that I can't possibly capture. Swann's Way is divided into two very different parts (there's a short third section too:...

from Pummzie

There are books which do need to be reviewed. No, that's not it. There are books about which I feel like an idiot proffering an opinion because they are so astonishing that I lack the vocabulary to convey my feelings. The first volume of Proust is such a book. So, all I will say is that it made m...

from Arctic-Stranger

A friend on LT recommended I read In Search of Lost Time, and after resisting for a while, I finally dove in. This is now my summer reading project. First, this is an intimidating book. It is volume one of six, and they are long volumes, with very long paragraphs and long sentences. (I tracked on...

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...