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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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Mar 14, 2013 David Cerruti rated it it was amazing

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If you are reading this review, there is no doubt that you are a Goodreader, possibly someone contemplating reading all of In Search of Lost Time, or just trying Swann’s Way to see if you like it, or you might have already read Swann’s Way and are curious as to how an amateur would dare attempt to review it, or perhaps you are a member of that highly esteemed Goodreads group “The Year of Reading Proust,” that ad hoc collection of enthusiasts, scholars, and virtual friends, who are for the most p ...more

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Dec 09, 2015 Sir Jack rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

“Yet this novel is not autobiography wearing a thin disguise of fiction but, rather, something more complex—fiction created out of real life, based on the experiences and beliefs of its author, and presented in the guise of autobiography…. a crucial alchemy—art’s transformation of life….” (from Lydia Davis’s introduction)

Because there are seemingly clear differences between the Narrator and Marcel Proust, or at least two crucial ones: Proust was Jewish (or at least his mother was); the Narrator ...more

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