Un amore di Swann

¿Cuál es el verdadero objeto de nuestro amor, nos enamoramos de la persona, de la imagen que proyectamos sobre ella, del amor mismo? ¿Hasta qué punto un pasado amor, su imagen, sus gestos, influyen en nuestras inclinaciones y apetitos futuros? ¿Es posible que otras vivencias estéticas o emocionales Leggi tutto

Whilst there is so much that I love about this novella, it is Swann’s growing awareness of the power and beauty of music that particularly enchanted me. And as his love for this music grows, so does his love and obsession for Odette. Music is interwoven throughout their tale. At first it is a tentati Leggi tutto

Su ana kadar böyle büyüleyici cümleler okumadim desem yeridir. Swannlarin Tarafindaki hikayenin Marcel'in agzindan anlatilmadan yazilmis versiyonu diyebiliriz. Yine buyuleyiciydi ama Odette'le evlendiğini biliyoruz bununla ilgili farkli birseyler de okumak isterdim. Belki diger kitaplarda devam edece Leggi tutto

Rating: 4.5 It's something that we all feel, but this gentle soul managed to write it down and left it to the world, something between the writer and the reader, falling in and falling out of love and all the sayings and doings in between.

For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, Hamlet (4) versus À la recherche du temps perdu (29) [A bar in Elsinore. HAMLET is slumped in front of a large collection of empty glasses] HAMLET: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had Leggi tutto

Pesnik Marko Tomaš u poemi "Pismo Venjički" reče da ne veruje u ljubav jer je "ona crna, strašna, velika, konačna kao smrt." Tim stihovima bih ukratko opisao ovaj roman. Ljubav je mit, iluzija. Crna kao i svaka iluzija koja izgubi sjajnu masku snoviđenja. Strašna zbog dodatnog prtljaga, sitnih sasto Leggi tutto

Sinceramente, che gli vuoi dire a Proust? Ok, a volte la prende un po' alla larga. E Swann e Odette sono così indolenti che ogni tanto due testate gliele daresti per risvegliarli. Pero, dai, livelli altissimi. Non ero molto convinto. E invece. [82/100] “E come, accingendosi a baciare Odette per la prima Leggi tutto

I know Proust is supposed to be amazing - maybe reading in the original french was just too much because it's discouragingly dense - the text just goes on and on with extremely rare paragraph markings. The thing about Proust is that he really goes into such minute detail - sometimes it's interesting Leggi tutto

J'ai récemment décidé de relire Proust pour voir à quel point ma lecture a probablement changé avec l'age. Le style de Proust est unique et captivant - par moment hypnotisant et dans un autre temps épuisant (les longues phrases de réflexions résultant dans des paragraphes qui semblent interminables) Leggi tutto

It's a definition of love in 200 pages, and then you realize that the object is of no importance, only the subject itself.