J. Walker’s Reviews > Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove > Status Update

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.

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?

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.

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.