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If I had world enough and time, I’d read Pamela (thanks largely to Ian Watt), and I’d happily read all of this novel, about which someone wrote an entire book called The Year of Reading Proust. But a year sounds like a lot. For now, like the Energizer bunny, I’m still going…
— Mar 13, 2025 06:05AM
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The narrator is as fascinated with the beach girls he meets in Balbec as an American surf band from the 1960s would be. He writes about them at much greater length, and less catchily, but it’s cute, often even charming.
— Mar 19, 2025 04:49AM
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This translation is sometimes so contemporary that it distracts me. Did Proust use an expression in French that corresponds to our idiom “in real life”? Did he write of avoiding someone “like the plague”?
— Mar 02, 2025 07:37AM
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It’s amusing to see modernity creeping in on little cat’s feet. “I don’t think I’d like having a telephone about the house. Once the novelty of it wears off, it must be a definite nuisance,” says Mme. Cottard (183).
— Feb 26, 2025 04:50AM
