Alla ricerca del tempo perduto

When you read Proust, and learn to appreciate his extraordinary, dreamy, hypnotic, truly inimitable style (this review is a mere shadow on the wall of a Platonic cave), which succeeds in making the syntax of language, usually as invisible as air, into a tangible element, so that, like literary yogis Leggi tutto

In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself. I struggled with Proust, on and off

Lo so che sei un lettore compulsivo e a star bloccato su un libro per 6 mesi non ce la fai. Sì, perché è un libro unico e le 7 parti devono andare in binge reading. Lo so che mi dirai: è inattuale, roba polverosa di un secolo fa. E poi: ci sono queste frasi infinite e tra un inciso e una subordinata Leggi tutto

Celebrity Death Match Special: In Search of Lost Time versus Harry Potter The francophone world was stunned by today's release of papers, sealed by Proust for 100 years after publication of the initial volume of his famous series, which finally reveal his original draft manuscripts. In the rest of th Leggi tutto

I read the whole damn thing, for which I feel like demanding a medal. A famous quote about this work goes, "I may be thicker skinned than most, but I just can't understand why anyone should take thirty pages to describe how he tosses about in bed because he can't get to sleep. I clutched my head." I Leggi tutto