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This is the best critical analysis of the text of In Search of Lost Time that I have read, and I have read a number since finishing Proust's book last Summer. This is also only one of two (the other Roger Shattuck) critical analysis of Proust's masterpiece where the author states that the the structure of Proust's book shows that Proust assumes his readers will reread his book. I came to the same conclusion in my own rereading of Proust but have been puzzled that, to my knowledge, the Proustian
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David Ellison's guide is the best of its type. There are many good books on Proust as a man, and a couple (e.g. Roger Shattuck) of very good books on "In Search of Lost Time". However, it's very hard to find a blow-by-blow guide for the reader or student - even the Wikipedia page on the book is appallingly brief! Ellison works through each volume, chapter by chapter, section by section. He discusses plot (as does Patrick Alexander, in his very good book that doesn't go far enough) but also discu
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Oct 04, 2014
Jonathan
marked it as to-read
Dec 11, 2014
Renato
marked it as considering
Jul 07, 2017
Brian
marked it as to-read
