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I see now that there's some confusion on Goodreads about which translation people are reading. Looking under this Everyman's Mandelbaum edition I see a review from someone who's actually reading the Clive James, version. Some-one needs to clarify the
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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“speaking of Proust: “The fact is he didn’t care much for children – which is strange when you think about how he had an almost religious feeling for his own childhood. ‘I like looking at children’, he used to say, ‘but not spending time with them”
― Monsieur Proust
― Monsieur Proust
Joyce Carol Oates
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This is a group for anyone who would like to read and discuss any of Joyce Carol Oates' many wonderful short stories, novels and plays. ...more
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