Jordi’s Comments (group member since Apr 17, 2016)

Jordi’s comments from the Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014 group.

Dave wrote: "Be brave folks, be very, very brave! According to my ebook 21% (70%-91%) of this volume is about the Guermantes dinner party which our hero attends. Having finished this part, I feel a sense of sat..."

That's what I found delicious about reading the party scenes. They demystify that notion of the "Fabourg St. Germain salon" that plagues french literature. It seems that is one of Proust hidden agendas with this novel-by depicting the reunion sans flourishes of any kind the reader gets the impression that they are nothing but a bunch of old fashioned bores.

Also is it me of does Proust loves a "mirror" type of plot. Ex. St. Loup & Rachael/Swann & Odette, [SPOILER] St. Loup beating an homosexual while being gay himself/Charlus beating an homosexual. Which is kind of funny when one notices how Proust is always talking about how we always forget the past concerning art appreciation.