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This edition of the masterwork, with translation, notes and introduction by Lydia Davis, produces a literary package with a valuation higher than the sum of its parts. By that I mean that once consuming the whole of this particular edition, I can’t in good faith assign a rating of less than five stars even if at various intervals my reactions were somewhat flat or even petulant.
I am left preoccupied by a fantasy of dining with Flaubert, Proust, and Nabokov to share in a little tête-à-tête about ...more
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Suffered through 9/10 of it but it picked up speed at the end.
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