béla malina’s Reviews > In Swanns Welt > Status Update

finally finished the first chapter. This was amazing and difficult and demanding. I am currently in my exam phase and have been busy with lots of life. This book isn’t supposed to be read quickly or in a rush. I think I’m reading this right. In the right moment when there is space and air to breathe and the enough patience to let long sentences and images sink in…

This book is probably the most demanding prose-read ever. Proust is the Hegel of Literature. I am not sure I can get down with these endless descriptions of flora and fauna, places and people - I cant imagine any of it. So I guess my imagination, or lack there of, is part of the problem. Nonetheless I am planning to read it all the way through until the end of August. I think I should be able to...Inshallah.