Cal Barton’s Reviews > Praeterita: The Autobiography Of John Ruskin > Status Update

Proust loved this book, which makes sense. It reads like a sloppy first draft for Swann’s Way. Meaning: it’s great. I’m choosing to read it as (above all else) a book about being an only child. Volume 2 opens with Ruskin musing: “For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought…”