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Through Sunday, 1 Sept.: Sodom and Gomorrah
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Through Sunday, 25 Aug.: Sodom and Gomorrah
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I have to say, M. Proust really pulled this book out for me. I was not enjoying much of the middle of the book, but the last third was excellent and revived my spirits for continuing on with the saga. Once again it was some of the Salons that tended to decrease my connection although the descriptions of the Balbec area and our narrator's return to the coast caught me up again.
In a section that seemed to sum up much of the meaning of this book, Proust writes:
Other women, it was true, had been in ...more
In a section that seemed to sum up much of the meaning of this book, Proust writes:
Other women, it was true, had been in ...more
На самом деле 3,5, потому что главный герой идиот :)
Women shall have Gomorrah and men shall have Sodom - Alfred de Vigny, epigram
"[The Sodomites] form in every land an oriental colony, cultured, musical, malicious, which has charming qualities and intolerable defects."
For his next trick, Marcel Proust contrives to up-end much of what has come before, as his narrator goes ever further in search of lost time. (My reviews of the first three volumes can be found: here, here, and - what do you know? - here.) I'd have to say that volume four, Sodome e ...more
"[The Sodomites] form in every land an oriental colony, cultured, musical, malicious, which has charming qualities and intolerable defects."
For his next trick, Marcel Proust contrives to up-end much of what has come before, as his narrator goes ever further in search of lost time. (My reviews of the first three volumes can be found: here, here, and - what do you know? - here.) I'd have to say that volume four, Sodome e ...more
I'm pretty sure at this point that I'll be rereading all of Proust through the rest of my life. There's no way that one reading can capture all that can be had from this work; and it's unlikely that further readings will leave me assured that I won't discover something else from another reading of it.
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Sep 13, 2013
V Mignon
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Nov 14, 2014
Ginny
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