08-11-2016, 09:51 PM
Trying to wrap this one up (In Search of Lost Time, vol I):
I'm reading it in English because I don't have it in French, unfortunately. Proust can be sublime and dull in one and the same tome. His prose is poetic and exceptional, of course, as long as it's not text involving description of mundane dinners with direct speech. Combray (part 1) was beautiful. Swann in Love (part 2), on the other hand is much less so. He is cheapening his work by descending into treating such lame events.
Also this:
I'm reading it in English because I don't have it in French, unfortunately. Proust can be sublime and dull in one and the same tome. His prose is poetic and exceptional, of course, as long as it's not text involving description of mundane dinners with direct speech. Combray (part 1) was beautiful. Swann in Love (part 2), on the other hand is much less so. He is cheapening his work by descending into treating such lame events.
Also this:
''Do I look civilized to you?''