Marcel Proust
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| Original Title: | À la recherche du temps perdu |
| ISBN: | 0812969642 (ISBN13: 9780812969641) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7 |
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When you read Proust, and learn to appreciate his extraordinary, dreamy, hypnotic, truly inimitable style (this review is a mere shadow on the wall of a Platonic cave), which succeeds in making the syntax of language, usually as invisible as air, into a tangible element, so that, like literary yogis, we may feel, for the first time, how enjoyable the simple activity of reading, like breathing, can be; and discover the delights of sentences which took the author days to construct and us an hour to read, unpacking layers of subordinate clauses to discover, nestling inside their crisp folds, a simile as unexpected and delicious as a Swiss chocolate rabbit, wearing a yellow marzipan waistcoat and carrying an edible rake, found in its cocoon of tissue paper under a lilac bush during a childhood Easter egg hunt; or, steaming across the calm waters of a limpid grammatical lake in the capable hands of Captain Marcel and his crew, confident that they know the route from generations of experience, and will in due time, exactly on schedule, arrive at the main verb, pointing us tourists to it with justifiable, understated pride; then you will gradually come to identify with the alchemical author, spending twenty years sitting, propped up by pillows, in his velvet dressing-gown, transmuting the lead of his accumulated experience into gold, surrounded by galley proofs which he constantly rereads and revises, pasting in a parenthesis in the middle of this sentence, an apposition in that, so that the papers are gradually festooned, like bizarre Christmas decorations, with loops and curlicues of afterthoughts; and waiting for life, his unfaithful mistress, to leave him, simultaneously knowing that it is inevitable, and also that she will never do so, at least as long as this, the greatest and strangest of all novels, is still not quite finished...Present Regarding Books In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7)
| Title | : | In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7) |
| Author | : | Marcel Proust |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Boxed Set |
| Pages | : | Pages: 4211 pages |
| Published | : | June 3rd 2003 by Modern Library (first published 1927) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Cultural. France. Literature. European Literature. French Literature. Philosophy |
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Ratings: 4.34 From 9480 Users | 534 ReviewsCriticism Regarding Books In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7)
a frustrated lilac tree wrote: "This has bene on my to do list for a while."Good luck!I finished this work. Each book is reviewed below. The only question left is "Was it worth it?". Was it worth 10 months of working my way through this opus? Was it worth what I got out of it? The answer is a definite Yes. Yes, there were times where it was an effort to read another page. Yes, there were times that it was mesmerizing and I didn't want to put it down. Yes, it was funny. Yes, it was sad. Mostly it was profound, thoughtful and very universal. It speaks to all people because it
More than a commentary on Swanns jealousy or M. Charluss homosexuality or the frivolity of the Guermantes sorties, Marcel Prousts monumental work In Search of Lost Time paints the unsuccessful reconstruction of a forgone world and a lost existence from fickle memories, which like morning mists would fade with the rising sun. The narrator Marcel, longing for a past that didnt exist but must be created, sought to experience Bergsons continuous time rather than the fragmented and still-framed
Initially published in French between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Prousts seven-part work In Search of Lost Time (also called Remembrance of Things Past) has undergone a befuddling series of translations. The MoncrieffKilmartinEnright version, made available for this Modern Library publication, is essentially the original C. K. Scott Moncrieff translation with further revisions by Terence Kilmartin in 1984 (based on the 1954 definitive French text) and D. J. Enright in 1992.As I finish each volume, I
This has bene on my to do list for a while.
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They
Yeah... well. I don't think I'll live long enough to read the whole thing. But it must be on the to-read shelf.
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