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Quit midway through. The language is truly beautiful, but oy. I can only handle so many tangents with no discernible plot. First half seems to be the over-emotional musings of a boy? young man? with a strangely strong attachment to his mother's goodnight kisses. The second half seems to be about a petty man willing himself into love with a woman lacking intelligence, depth, or even physical appeal to him, and who doesn't love him. Everything seems to be an aesthetic endeavor. Notice I say "seems
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"The places that we have known belong now only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience." What a book. I'm afraid I won't do this one justice. Maybe it's my current mindset (a number of deaths have affected me in recent months) that is causing me to think about my own memories. There is also the matter of Proust's writing: it is beautiful. I confess I became weary with the back and forth between Swann and Odette; I'd have kicked her to the curb myself, but yes, t
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Apr 07, 2014
Claire Jefferies
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Nov 06, 2018
Simon Dugard
marked it as to-read
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