Michael Barry’s Reviews > Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume One > Status Update

Someone recommended “letting Proust’s prose wash over you” but I disagree strongly with this approach. One must cling to the object in the main clause of his sentences like a life-raft. One must focus hard to understand at all what the hell he is on about. Reading this is by far one of the most delightful experiences I have had on earth but it’s much harder work than just ‘letting it wash over me’.