by Marcel Proust
Reposting this review since it had been erroneously deleted.-------It feels peculiar to write a review on Du côté de chez Swann given how many comments I have posted during the two months of our reading in the GoodReads Group “2013 The Year of Reading Proust”. As I have read it in the original Fre...
I'm not sure if my three-star rating is fair. I had to read this one for a class back in...along with lots of other stuff and the pressure was certainly not helping the pleasure. However, I remember that I was positively surprised at that time that the novel wasn't as "hard" and awful as I had antic...
I think my original impetus for reading this was Thomas Disch's excellent short story "Getting into Death". Finding out that she probably only has a few weeks to live, the heroine immediately goes out, buys an edition of Proust, and starts reading. She's only able to relax once she's finished. Well,...
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