false 28385 66 <I>In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower</I> is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, <I>In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower</I> has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator's life&#151;the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine. 28942 1370 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) total:783|5:486|4:194|3:83|2:15|1:5| 783 3490 1403 93 4 24 false false Tue Aug 11 19:34:53 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:42:06 -0700 2009 the review is missing.
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David – You’re wrong that this is better than Swann’s Way and you’re wrong in calling Proust an ‘anti-romantic’. Try again, jewtard!


Brian – read more carefully, gothskimmer. i wrote t...more...]]> 5 10 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sat Nov 22 08:11:31 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 12 05:33:27 -0700 2009 A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, and people see different things in it. To me, though, the unifying theme is a continuation of Proust's analysis of how romantic relationships work, which he started in Un Amour de Swann. There, he examined one particular kind of re...more...]]> 3 7 false false Sun May 03 17:19:44 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 16 18:42:19 -0800 2008 Sun May 03 17:19:44 -0700 2009 A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs translates to Within a Budding Grove.

Good thing I have the ever-trustworthy (....???) C. K. Scott Moncrieff to translate this all for me!

...more...]]> 4 14 false false Wed Aug 05 21:52:34 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 08:55:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 true false Tue Dec 18 08:39:26 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:39:34 -0800 2007 The most exquisite hand-wringing one is bound to encounter.

A good, slow, dense read for the winter. This man is capable of clacking open oblique moments like nuts and feeding you the meat. Mysterious meat you did not really recognize before it was proffered. (Okay, now forget the ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 13:26:01 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 14:07:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 10:24:04 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 10:38:00 -0800 2008 1
I've really had to come face to face with just how cynical he is....more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 09:05:35 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:56:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 06:55:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 18:15:26 -0700 2009
His obsessions wi...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 05:07:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 02:01:22 -0700 2009 less than half
I always imagined what it would be like when I am older and therefore reasonably excused, from falling asleep and snoring loudly during act 1 of a pathetically unpromising tract of theatre, blissfully unaware of my com...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Apr 30 10:06:13 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 30 10:07:11 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 17:03:58 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 09:02:39 -0700 2009
The story took lots of perseverance to get through but just when I was about to give up and cast the book aside, I'd read somet...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 13:22:33 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 17:09:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 16 14:33:28 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 12 15:05:03 -0700 2009 Swann's Way, the false and fragmentary nature of our knowledge of the characters of others: the image of Swann as pretentious name-dropper, held by M's father after S's marriage to Odette, is contrasted with the erudite, modest, discreet Swan...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 10 18:05:11 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 14 13:33:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 21:12:51 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 21:23:02 -0700 2008 Within a Budding Grove, that didn't quite live up to the beauty of Swanns Way. While the first book followed quite closely the adventures of M. Swann and his love affair with Odette, this book stays almost entire...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 27 20:40:20 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 13 21:45:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Mar 12 14:24:06 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 12 20:22:13 -0700 2007
This particular volume is a keeper--you get to meet the Monet character, and Albertine is very fetching, and then they are all at the bea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 20 10:10:05 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 10:13:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 27 05:58:29 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 06:13:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28393