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

Marcel Proust

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Dec 28, 2012 MichelleCH rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, 1001, group-reads

This is a very tough book for me to review since I don't feel like I have gotten the full experience of Proust's writing. After finishing the last page, I knew that this is a book to be read not only once but several times. There are many subtle references and connections I know I missed.

My strategy going in was to read it for the story and not to worry about interpretations or how the writing was constructed. For me, it was easier to read it on my Kindle so that I could highlight a word or phra ...more

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Jul 23, 2019 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it

Shelves: france, creativity, foodie, relationships, the-classics-club

I listened to an audiobook of Swann's Way. It was over seventeen hours. Like my writing teacher said yesterday when I told her I was listening to an audiobook of Swann's Way, it's the perfect classic to listen to (unless, she added, you are going to be tested on it), as it goes on and on with details that are superfluous to the story.

There are really two parts to the book. The first part is the story of the narrator as a child, and I have to say that I much preferred this part of the book. The n ...more

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Sep 28, 2014 Mike rated it it was amazing

While the first section was very slow going, the later sections as the author looks at Swan's and his own romantic relationships led to some of the most fluid literature that Ive yet enjoyed. I'm looking forward to Book 2... ...more

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