Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 in 2017: Our Year of Reading Proust

Jul 17, 2014 Renato rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Reading a book for the first time is a great, exciting experience that packs a myriad of emotions and sensations: you鈥檙e happy because of the joy of starting another journey, anxious because of your expectations, curious because of the reviews you've read or things you鈥檝e heard about the story鈥� it鈥檚 something similar to going out on a first date, where everything is novelty and - if the book (the person) proves to be interesting indeed - you want to find out more and more. Once the initial excit ...more

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Mar 28, 2014 Renato rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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May 30, 2016 Kl谩ra Slivovice rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I have tried to read this book for 20 years. I first started when I was 15, but I never succeeded to pass page 100. It took me years before feeling brave enough (or mature enough) to finish the first volume of "La Recherche".
Well, it was easier than I thought, or maybe it was just the right moment for me to start the adventure.
I agree with Peter Cameron when he says that you have to have fallen in love and you have to have lost your love before you can read, not mentioning understand, "In searc ...more

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May 19, 2013 Tony rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

One of those novels that unambiguously struck me as a work of genius. Like Joyce's Ulysses, this is a book that, if read diligently, will teach you about human behaviour and, perhaps, how to live your life. Indeed, Alain de Botton wrote How Proust Can Change Your Life with this in mind.
I was intrigued to learn that, unlike most authors, the revision process for Proust meant adding more and more to what he originally wrote, as if his powers of observation were limitless.
The ...more

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