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The narrator describes the church at Combray as “a building which occupied, so to speak, four dimensions of space—the name of the fourth being Time—which had sailed the centuries with that old nave…” (36–7).
— Jan 08, 2025 05:45AM
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An amusing remark says, “Other people are, as a rule, … immaterial to us” (143). That strikes me as true, but so does the rest of the sentence, which describes, without using the word “love,” the way certain people seem “to belong to a different universe” (143).
— Jan 25, 2025 10:41AM
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Years ago, I learned of a Harvard course on masters of the Modernist novel, which dealt with Joyce, Proust, and Mann. I’ve read Mann and Joyce and am now remedying my final shortcoming in this regard by reading Proust. (BTW, the current version of that course covers Joyce, Proust, and Woolf—fine with me, since I’ve read her too.)
— Jan 05, 2025 09:59AM
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On Amazon, I found this public-domain, seemingly print-on-demand edition of the first volume of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation. If I go on to other volumes, I plan to read other translators, but this one is still a standard, I believe.
— Jan 05, 2025 09:58AM
