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Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

Marcel Proust,

C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)

Start date: February 25, 2013

Finish date: April 28, 2013

Discussion: Within a Budding Grove, vol. 2

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Within a Budding Grove, vol. 2

Second book: difficulty staying interested
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Through Sunday, 28 Apr.: Within a Budding Grove
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Feb 23, 2015 Sue rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, proust, read-2015, france, fiction, my-own-books-2015

In my second book of ISOLT, I find myself with both more patience and more impatience while reading. The glories of the writing are simply wonderful. The moments of insight sweep me away and I read them over again, once or twice to get their meaning completely. But there are some passages in between that test me, not yet to the point where I feel any threat of desertion but I do occasionally wish I could shake our narrator a bit, tell him to open his eyes perhaps a bit wider, take in more than o ...more

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May 08, 2023 Kaila added it

Shelves: classics, 2023, france

WHATTUP I've read two Proust books now *gives self a gold star*

This one has the most hilarious passage I've yet read in any of these books (trying to kiss Gilbertine in the hotel room and she rings the bell, I actually scoffed). Our protagonist is maturing (thank god) and puts himself in ridiculous situations trying to get ladies to notice him. Seeing it from his inner monologue, we the readers can judge his hormone-fueled anxiety harshly, but I'm sure Kaila as an adolescent was equally insuffer ...more

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Jul 29, 2015 Sammy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-of-my-life

"The most familiar precepts are not always the truest" -- Gisèle as Sophocles, writing to Racine.

The second volume of Proust's Great Novel(TM), À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Within a Budding Grove, better - but more salaciously - translated as In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower) is no less magisterial than the last, although one suspects that many more people falter at the posts of this one, given as much of the book is to social commentary and increasingly oblique yet erudite discu ...more

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