The Year of Reading Proust discussion

These short stories seem to reveal much of Proust's wit, partially even written before the age 21. I haven't read these yet, but the reviews are promising.

Short stories obviously require little time to read and might make for a good preliminary or, given that our schedule already started, parallel read. I am a big fan of short stories because of their condension of ideas into a more easily digestible form, trading time for inspiration favourably. Which does not mean at all that I am scared of the seemingly opposite situation in ISOLT.

What do you think? Have you read short stories of Proust before?

Since the reading has already started, Simon, I'll put this into the Auxiliary folder and add the book to our shelves in case anyone wishes to join you.