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While the parts about the narrator's grandma and the various reactions to the Dreyfus affair are top notch, much of this is a dull retread of elements from the first two volumes. The weenie narrator has now bloomed into a full-blown creeper, but thankfully (albeit boringly) his vague malady mostly relegates him to acting on his obsessions via desultory public lurking. Skewering upper-class salon life is fun, but not fun for hundreds and hundreds of pages.
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This was a mixed bag for me. Some truly electrifying scenes —M. Charlus!—but also stuff I felt I had to slog through. Completely worth the slogging, I believe. Especially I love when he talks about pai ting. Loved a lot of passages, in fact. I still don't know what to make of our weird little narrator!
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Like all of Proust's work that I have read so far, this is a brilliant book. Proust is a master at capturing the essence of shallow and hypocritical conversation. I am so thankful that I did not live in a time/manner that would have necessitated attending one of these turn of the century French salons. I would have spent the whole time in a corner, bashing my head against a wall.
As much as I loved the book, it dragged quite a bit in parts. Robert De San Loup 's long-winded babbling about the ar ...more
As much as I loved the book, it dragged quite a bit in parts. Robert De San Loup 's long-winded babbling about the ar ...more
Dec 07, 2012
Susan
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May 17, 2016
Dianne
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Gerard
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Nike
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