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Remembrance
of Things Past |
Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as
a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half
he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is
Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism
and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential...
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Swann's
Way (In Search of Lost Time, Vol 1) |
One of the most fascinating and beautiful books I've ever
read, Proust had a knack for taking the smallest detail and
making it meaningful and beautiful. His sentence structure
is very different from anything I've ever read before and
his writing style is very dense(somebody once told me that
it was like swimming through mayonaise) He is one of most
original writers of this century and certainly one of the
most poetic. Reading Swanns Way has made me hungry to read
more of Proust. I've looked everywhere for the whole set of
In Search of Lost Time(or Rememberence of Things Past) luckily
Amazon has the whole set. Everybody should at least try to
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In
Search of Lost Time (In Search of Lost Time, Vol 3) |
The third part of the novel follows the narrator into the
aristocratic salons of turn-of-the-century Paris, and comments
on such matters as the Dreyfus Affair, art and literature,
and the disappointments which invaribly follow the achievement
of goals sought after with unbridled desire. Whether The Guermantes
Way is better or worse than the earlier parts of the novel
(or those parts to follow) is not important as a recommendation
or criticism; it makes up an integral part of the novel and
cannot exist without the other parts. Proust is not easy reading
and demands the undivided attention of the reader; as I am
becoming aware, the effort put into reading the novel is eminently
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Marcel
Proust Ephemera Site - ". . . an informal site dedicated
to publishing English translations of Proust's lesser writings.
Pieces and letters which, as far as I am aware, are not available
in translation elsewhere. "
TempsPerdu.com
- A site devoted to Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps
perdu, known in English as In Search of Lost Time, with bibliography
and links.
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