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In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust,

C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)

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Jan 20, 2017 Rachel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fiction, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die, hardbooks, historical-fiction

Can I throw a book like a football while screaming BOOM?!? Let 2017 begin! Happy New Year!

*Perhaps I will have something smarter than a football metaphor after I process for a few minutes...

See, already...part of me wants to turn around and start this all up again, looking up all the references, trying to find out what autobiographical influences it contains...and part of me wants to take these two gigantic books outside and leave them in the snow. I think it definitely had an impact on my back ...more

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Jun 26, 2008 Jacob rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

From the day I picked up the first of these two massive tomes this struck me as a work which would change my view of what fiction could do and how it could do it. There's no way a review (or at least not mine) could do this justice. If you're a person that breathes and exists in both time and space, I would advise that you read these books.

Favorite sections (spoilers, even though Proust usually mentions these events in advance and even if he didn't, the section headings would do it): The death o ...more

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