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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

Marcel Proust,

C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)

Start date: January 1, 2014

Finish date: February 22, 2014

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Dec 05, 2011 Riku Sayuj rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: epic-stuff, craved-but-feared, philosophy, poetry, favorites, extra-creative, r-r-rs

“As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.”

~ James Joyce, Ulysses

“The Universe is the externalization of the soul.”

~ Emerson

To attempt to review this now would be like trying to review a book after finishing the first couple of chapters. There is no way to do justice to it, or to even be sure of what one is prattling on about. So seasoned readers, please do excuse an ...more

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Sep 02, 2011 David Lentz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A man seeking to connect with the meaning of his life discovers a new theory on the reality of time. It seems that time is not traditionally linear but rather, in truth, humans are subject to triggers, as simple as a madeleine and a cup of tea, which can send one unwittingly hurtling into the past. Depending upon the associations one may have with such triggers, the journey may be pleasant or painful. But in order to understand where we have traveled, one must revisit the past and surge existent ...more

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Aug 26, 2012 Sammy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-of-my-life

For a long time I would go to bed early.

With those words, one of the greatest achievements of Western literature begins. Despite being a lit major, classicist and language-lover, I have somehow lived 28 years without ever committing myself to read Proust. In retrospect, I'm not sad about that, as I feel my heart, soul, and mind are more open to understanding the Frenchman's great 20th century tome with every passing year of my life.

In the opening volume, Du côté de chez Swann (Swann's Way, perh ...more

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