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Through Sunday, 1 Sept.: Sodom and Gomorrah
By Jason · 95 posts · 122 views
By Jason · 95 posts · 122 views
last updated Sep 07, 2013 06:29PM
Through Sunday, 25 Aug.: Sodom and Gomorrah
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When I dig around in my mind for a few thoughts on the books I’ve read, I think about the people who may attempt to interpret the shards and fragments I come up with.
What does the reader of a review need to discover?
Perhaps only this simple inscription: Skip the review and read the book instead.
Or perhaps what the reader needs is a link to a page containing an in-depth excavation of the book by some scholar or professional reviewer.
But those options wouldn’t ...more
Recommended for: Proust completionists.
"The conversation of a woman one loves is like the soil that covers a subterranean and dangerous water; one feels at every moment beneath the words the presence, the penetrating chill of an invisible pool; one perceives here and there its treacherous percolation, but the water itself remains hidden."
As the title indicates, the fourth book of the ISoLT series deals with the nature of Desire, of the forbidden kind. The voyeuristic window that earlier tenta ...more
Two or three times it occurred to me, for a moment, that the world in which this room and these bookshelves were situated, and in which Albertine counted for so little, was perhaps an intellectual world, which was the sole reality, and my grief something like what we fell when we read a novel, a thing of which only a madman would make a lasting and permanent grief that prolonged itself through his life; that a tiny flicker of my will would suffice, perhaps, to attain to this real world, to re...more
Jun 30, 2013
Richard Magahiz
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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This book is more complex than the three that went before. It feels like Proust is finally getting down to the essential theme of the series with the tempestuous relationship between the Baron de Charlus and his violinist paramour Charlie Morel being set against the one between the Narrator and Albertine, whom he passes off as his cousin while in society, all with the specters of death (the Narrator's grandmother and Charles Swann notably) not far in the background. It strikes me as nearly plotl
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This book (or this translation) bogged down a bit. Endless social dynamics described in detail. There is classic proust though: deep insights into the psychology of love, jealousy and fear of sharing the truth with a loved one. most of the book he (and everyone else) is perfectly willing to self-deceive about one's own feelings of love and the status of the object of love. As a result the real feelings and fears are shoved under the rug of social correctness and snobbery. No one is able to reall
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IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: BOOK 4 - Sodom and Gomorrah
P?? :: "…to believe that amiability to be real was to lack breeding."
P?? :: A rout is a chaotic and disorderly retreat or withdrawal of troops from a battlefield, resulting in the victory of the opposing party, or following defeat, a collapse of discipline, or poor morale.
A routed army often degenerates into a sense of "every man for himself" as the surviving combatants attempt to flee to safety. A disorganized rout often results in much higher ...more
P?? :: "…to believe that amiability to be real was to lack breeding."
P?? :: A rout is a chaotic and disorderly retreat or withdrawal of troops from a battlefield, resulting in the victory of the opposing party, or following defeat, a collapse of discipline, or poor morale.
A routed army often degenerates into a sense of "every man for himself" as the surviving combatants attempt to flee to safety. A disorganized rout often results in much higher ...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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developing a hate-love relationship with Proust...
see my thoughts here:
http://wordsandpeace.com/2014/12/23/s... ...more
see my thoughts here:
http://wordsandpeace.com/2014/12/23/s... ...more
Dec 31, 2012
Nick
marked it as to-read
Dec 14, 2015
Nick Short
rated it
really liked it
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