Alla ricerca del tempo perduto. Vol. 2

Unfortunately Volume II (containing ‘The Guermantes Way’ and - brilliant title - ‘The Cities of the Plain’) focuses too much on a narrow self-interested group of characters for my liking. Beauty and wit vie with slog in abundance. I’ve even surprised myself with how long it’s taken me to finish this Leggi tutto

Originally published on my blog here in February and March 1999. The Guermantes Way In the third volume of Remembrance of Things Past, the subject changes. From boyhood in Swann's Way, through adolescent lovesickness in Within A Budding Grove, Proust's narrator now emerges into Parisian society. The G Leggi tutto

the opening to Cities of the Plain is perhaps my favorite prose piece ever written.

As disconcerting as it can be to painstakingly grind one's way through a thousand pages of an extraordinarily dense novel and realize that you're only a third of the way through it, it actually does get easier once you pass that first volume (admittedly quite the hurdle) and move into the second vol Leggi tutto

So, can I just say I really don't like Albertine? Still waiting on some redeeming qualities, but I don't think they're in her future. Finally finished the second volume which included The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain. Enjoyed both immensely and wonder how this story will end. Although I de Leggi tutto