Swann's Way does not, say, have a lot of plot. At all. Let's get that out of the way upfront. If you're looking for a plot-driven story, look elsewhere. What it does is loop in and around certain topics, in the narrator's life and the life of Swann, and examine them in such minute detail, in such fl...
“Will it reach the surface of my limpid consciousness- this memory, this old moment which the attraction of an identical moment has come so far to summon, to move, to raise up from my very depths? I don’t know. Now I no longer feel anything, it has stopped, gone back down perhaps; who knows if it wi...
It was one of those summer nights in Cambridge, MA when I was trying to escape the muggy heat in a dorm without an air conditioner. Taking refuge in the Harvard University book store, the Coop, I was cold after being soaked through with sweat, or rain, or both. It was one of those summers. Shelf-rea...
I didn't really get the cookie thing. Seriously, dude--just grab some ding-dongs and move on! I think the stuff about the lady Madeline was also confusing. I read maybe fifteen pages before skimming a bunch.
So many give up on this, let me express a trick:This also applies to listening to the opera of Wagner, by the way, but I'll explain that later.Instead of tormenting yourself trying to capture and keep in mind a fragile narrative thread as your eyes pour over, or rather have poured over them like a s...
”At the hour when I usually went downstairs to find out what there was for dinner...I would stop by the table, where the kitchen-maid had shelled them, to inspect the platoons of peas, drawn up in ranks and numbered, like little green marbles, ready for a game; but what most enraptured me were the a...
As just about everyone that admires this work has praised it far better than I ever can I will only say this.If you are a reader that skim reads then don't even bother with this as you will get nothing out of it. Each sentence and description must be read in full to appreciate Proust. (I wish I coul...
(There are no "spoilers," I promise.)Combray"A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the sequence of the hours, the order of the years and worlds" — bedrooms; "the immobility of things" — habit — the magic lantern — weather; barometers — "Bathilde! Come and stop your husband from drinking cognac...
How do you review a painting? You may discuss contrast, contours, use of colours. But it is meaningless if the person you are discussing it with hasn’t seen the painting already. How do you review a madeleine? Here is Proust’s take: ”I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soake...
I have removed my initial three star rating for this and settled with a blank rating. This is because I cannot in any way say what I want to say about this book with goodreads stars. I had given it three stars because of my indecision, it seemed like a good idea to just stick my rating somewhere in ...
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