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Through Sunday, 29 Dec.: Time Regained
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Through Sunday, 22 Dec.: Time Regained
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By Jason · 124 posts · 76 views
last updated Dec 24, 2013 11:03AM
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My thoughts on "ISOLT":
Wow, truly, this is a masterpiece. As a reader I believe I am forever transformed by my experience of reading this novel.
It has been my companion for more than a year, slowly revealing both it's brilliance as a piece of art and it's wisdom about life, being a man, a son, a friend, a lover and an artist.
This final volume is in some ways the best of them all and I found it to be a magnificent close to what may be the most beautiful novel ever written.
Merci, M. Proust. Yes, ...more
Wow, truly, this is a masterpiece. As a reader I believe I am forever transformed by my experience of reading this novel.
It has been my companion for more than a year, slowly revealing both it's brilliance as a piece of art and it's wisdom about life, being a man, a son, a friend, a lover and an artist.
This final volume is in some ways the best of them all and I found it to be a magnificent close to what may be the most beautiful novel ever written.
Merci, M. Proust. Yes, ...more
Proust brings it all together in the last book. how "time" is regained outside of time. How age changes all perspectives, and the journey of the artist to regain time by rededicating to a deeper sense of truth inside himself, outside of habit, outside of social norms, outside of even the rituals of friendship and love--which may often form a kind of group deception that the artist must claw his way through to the sensation of his own shifting "reality".
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P26 :: "…reading teaches us to place a higher value on life, a value which we did not know how to appreciate, and the true extent of which we come to realize only through the book."
P47 :: "…pretension is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect." ...more
P47 :: "…pretension is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect." ...more
Jun 14, 2012
Book Portrait
marked it as stadtbücherei-bibliothèque
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review of another edition
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Dec 18, 2012
Erik F.
marked it as to-read
Jan 25, 2013
Danielle
marked it as to-read
Jul 27, 2014
Matthew
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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proust-2013
Jul 27, 2015
Shelley
marked it as to-read
