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J. Walker
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I've switched editions to the Penguin Modern Library edition as revised by D.J. Enright. It very simply reads better; I don't know if it's the editor (it uses the same basic translation, Montcreiff's manuscript, but it goes much more smoothly (?) in this other edition.
— Jul 17, 2022 12:14PM
J. Walker
is on page 799 of 1056
This is about where I switched versions from the Montcrieff to the Kilmartin versions, which I find much more readable. I have to wonder, though; is it the formatting, the printing and presentation that makes all the difference, or is it the revised translation that is itself so much easier to read?
— Jul 16, 2022 11:52AM
J. Walker
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800 hundred pages in, I have slogged partway through into the second book of Proust's original seven, since perhaps February of 2010.
It just never took with me, the 19th century setting and culture of bourgeois Europe eluded me, and Proust's narrator's early growth and groping into and among society was missing the point, somehow.
— May 01, 2022 04:15PM
It just never took with me, the 19th century setting and culture of bourgeois Europe eluded me, and Proust's narrator's early growth and groping into and among society was missing the point, somehow.
J. Walker
is on page 173 of 1056
The edition I have is dated no later than 1981; I've probably carried it along that long. I read the first book of this volume, SWANN'S WAY probably sometime in the 90s. Whatever depth it may have, it never sunk in with me, and I set it aside when I found other books to read.
Fast forward to last week; I started reading Madame Swann at Home from the beginning of the volume.
— Nov 11, 2016 01:01PM
Fast forward to last week; I started reading Madame Swann at Home from the beginning of the volume.

