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

Marcel Proust

Start date: January 1, 2013

Finish date: February 24, 2013

Discussion: Swann's Way, vol. 1

Why we're reading this: Alternate translation.
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Jan 02, 2013 Mala rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classic-ever-enduring-appeal, 2013-the-year-of-reading-proust

"narratives we have written inside of us, those that make us who we are."

There are books that we are supposed to read or our reading is not taken to be complete - it's like the seven wonders of the world — you may choose not to visit them but seeing them will somehow make you a part of their cultural heritage & history. Proust's ISoLT is one such cultural landmark. In his obssesive recollection of memories, the writer has also captured the charm & the vanity of belle époque life and culture & wh ...more

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Jan 04, 2013 Fredrik rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, proust

P396 :: To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!

P363 :: Maybe it is the nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases of music, and these notions that exist in relation to our dream, must also be nothing. We will perish, but we have for hostages these divine captives who will follow us and share our fate. And death in their comp ...more

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