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This was not for me. I carried on with it a/ because it was a group read, b/ it's nice to think that I've read it.
I would give 3 stars to the first two parts and the last part. But 'Swann in Love' (about half the book), I found incredibly tedious. I eventually skim read parts of this.
Now I've finished, I'm really looking forward to continuing with My Name Is Asher Lev. ...more
I would give 3 stars to the first two parts and the last part. But 'Swann in Love' (about half the book), I found incredibly tedious. I eventually skim read parts of this.
Now I've finished, I'm really looking forward to continuing with My Name Is Asher Lev. ...more
Quite possibly a perfect novel, but it was so time consuming and my eyes glazed over the beauty of the language so often, that I don't think I can continue on with the rest of In Search of Lost Time for a while.
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At long last, I have read Proust! I finished Swann's Way this afternoon occasionally gazing out at the Japanese maple outside my window and reading beautiful descriptions of autumn feeling as if I was in Paris:
...at a place where the trees were still covered in all their green leaves, one alone, small, squat, lopped, obstinate, shook in the wind a homely head of red hair...Here, it thickened the leaves of the chestnut trees like bricks and, like a piece of yellow Persian masonry patterned in blu ...more
...at a place where the trees were still covered in all their green leaves, one alone, small, squat, lopped, obstinate, shook in the wind a homely head of red hair...Here, it thickened the leaves of the chestnut trees like bricks and, like a piece of yellow Persian masonry patterned in blu ...more
Nov 02, 2015
Pamela
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This is the first volume of Proust's masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu , and links memories of the author's childhood in the town of Combray with the story of a love affair from many years before. The irrational passion of Swann for Odette, full of jealousy and despair, is reflected in the narrator's own thoughts and feelings.
Proust's style is elaborate and ornate, full of meandering digressions and precise detailed descriptions. It is a beautiful use of language that repays slow and ca ...more
Proust's style is elaborate and ornate, full of meandering digressions and precise detailed descriptions. It is a beautiful use of language that repays slow and ca ...more
On the nature of Swann’s jealousy:
“After which he could not save himself from utter exhaustion at the thought that, next day, he must begin afresh his attempts to find out what Odette had been doing, must use all his influence to contrive to see her. This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result, was so cruel a scourge that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumor which would prove fatal, that ...more
“After which he could not save himself from utter exhaustion at the thought that, next day, he must begin afresh his attempts to find out what Odette had been doing, must use all his influence to contrive to see her. This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result, was so cruel a scourge that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumor which would prove fatal, that ...more
As a 7th grader wrote in an unrelated book report, "The main issue is that love sucks and ruins things."
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Jan 25, 2013
Jen
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Dec 29, 2013
Pat
marked it as to-read
