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Finding Time Again
Finding Time Again: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Marcel Proust
The long-awaited final volume in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Timeone of the worlds most beloved works of literature The greatest literary work of the twentieth century. The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper Ian Pattersons acclaimed new translation of Finding Time Again introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The seventh and final volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of In Search of Lost Timethe first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920sbrings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy. In Finding Time Again, Marcel discovers his world destroyed by war and those he knew transformed by the march of time. An exquisite picture of France in the throes of the First World War, and containing, in the Bal des ttes sequence, one of Prousts most devastating set pieces, Finding Time Again triumphantly describes the paradox of facing mortality yet overcoming it through the act of writing. As Marcel rediscovers his vocation, he realizes that he can live on by writing down the story of his own memories and of his quest to recapture the past.
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Taylor
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Phenomenal ending to an unreal work.

Mind-bendy, ultra-reflective and fascinating, feels like something written in the future.... Pretty often I'd say to myself "Yeah this is wild stuff," especially in the second half. Somehow he managed to end this thing without letting me down at all. I love it.

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Taylor

It seems now therefore that there is no humiliation so great that one should not put up with it easily, in the knowledge that after a few years our buried faults will be no more than an invisible dust over which will smile the smiling and blossoming peace of nature.

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merelybookish
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I'M DONE!! 🎉🎉 After 15 months, I wrapped up #morningswithmarcel.
It was a journey and there were some rough spots, but overall, I loved it. Brilliant! 🌸💗🌸

AlaMich Which translation did you read? I haven‘t read Proust but I read a very interesting collection of essays by one of his translators, Lydia Davis. She described in great detail her process and the problems that came up while translating him. It was fascinating. (edited) 8mo
sarahbarnes Wow!!!! That is amazing. Congratulations - that has to feel like such an accomplishment! 8mo
merelybookish @AlaMich I did the Modern Penguin Library edition. Each volume has a different translator but Lydia Davis did the first one. I can imagine he's challenging to translate! His vocabulary is rich! (I googled so many words!) But there's a lot of word play and he notices when people use idiom or local dialects. 8mo
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squirrelbrain Well done! 🎉🎉🎉 8mo
Librarybelle Congratulations! 8mo
batsy Amazing! 🙌🏾 Someday I hope to get there 💫 8mo
BarbaraBB Wow, you did that pretty fast! Glad you loved it and kudos for finishing 🏆🤍 8mo
julieclair Congrats! That's an achievement! 🏆🎉 8mo
Ruthiella Congratulations! 👏👏👏 8mo
dabbe Yowza! 🤩🤩🤩 8mo
Cuilin Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 impressive. 8mo
Billypar Oh my 😮 ...nice job! I always think maybe I'll read the first volume someday but never imagined reading them all. 8mo
LeahBergen Woohoo!! 🥳 8mo
jlhammar Impressive! 8mo
Tamra Amazing! 👏🏾 8mo
MaureenMc 👏🎊👏 8mo
Leftcoastzen Kudos! 8mo
merelybookish @Ruthiella @dabbe @Cuilin Thank you!!! I figured you guys would understand! 😊 8mo
merelybookish @Billypar if you read the first one, you might want to keep going! 8mo
Centique You are truly a legend! 8mo
Suet624 That's amazing. Such dedication! 8mo
vivastory 🤘 🤘 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 8mo
merelybookish @vivastory thanks Scott. I feel like when I saw you in December I was at a low point. But I managed to get through it. 8mo
vivastory I will attempt it at some point in the future, but have no idea if I'll make it through. I'd like to read at least the first couple. Do you have any more big projects on the horizon? 8mo
merelybookish @vivastory Not really. I am reading Woolf's diaries again. There's Zola 20 book series but not quite ready to commit to that. 😂😱 8mo
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bunneeboy
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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One might say TIME REGAINED is actually the time you experience AFTER finishing all of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.

All 7 volumes read by the late, great Neville Jason!

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DrSabrinaMoldenReads
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I shall see what Marcel is obsessing about this time. These long novels are focused on at the most 3 events in one locale.

merelybookish There's an epic dinner party in this one. 😂 1y
charl08 One day I will read Proust... #whenimgrownup 1y
DrSabrinaMoldenReads That is the longest dinner party know to man @merelybookish 😩 14mo
DrSabrinaMoldenReads I highly recommend it @charl08. And actually I agree I would not love Proust as much as I do now. I find his observations validating more so than I would have when I was younger. 14mo
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xicanti
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This was magnificent more often than not. Proust saw people, and places, and experiences, and he brought them together to produce a stunning portrait not only of Time but of the reader. I‘m sure it‘s possible to read ISoLT without seeing anything of yourself in the scenes and observations that make up the narrator‘s life, but I think you‘d have to wilfully disengage from the text to do it. And this, friends, is a book to ENGAGE. Bloody marvellous.

merelybookish Well said! He makes one very aware of one's own interior landscape and all the ways we "shape" reality 2y
merelybookish Hit send too soon. Congratulations on finishing this epic. And in less than 5 months! 2y
xicanti @merelybookish my favourite thing about him is how he illuminates the relationship between interiority and outside influence. Those moments where I was just like, “YES. I feel this in my soul” totally made up for the duller bits. 2y
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xicanti @merelybookish thanks! I thought it was gonna be a much longer endeavour, but once I got into the rhythm of it I didn‘t want to stop! (Well, except for the few weeks I had to take off because it was a choice between not reading Proust and not reading anything other than Proust, and thereby returning a whole bunch of library books unread.) 2y
batsy Nice review! It's great motivation for when I get around to Proust (sooner rather than later, I hope) 2y
xicanti @batsy he‘s well worth making the time for. 2y
dabbe It's Da Sweet Casey at da bat! 💙🐾💚 2y
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xicanti
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I‘ve decided to do some cappuccino tourism this summer. Today I cycled out almost into the country and found a coffee shop with great atmosphere, reasonable prices, and very nice drinks. I‘ll stop in again next time I‘m in the area.

I hit a funny part in Proust‘s last, epic party while I was there. Much snickering ensued; enough that I ALMOST wished I‘d sat on the deserted patio instead of in the shop itself. Luckily, no one minded me. #gaymay

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Took my daily Proust outside with some genmaicha. Depending on how much I read today, I‘ll finish IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME on either Sunday or Monday. It‘s been such a journey. #gaymay

dabbe #impressiveindeed 👏💚🤩 2y
xicanti @dabbe it took me a lot less time than I expected it to! 2y
merelybookish Wowza!! That's amazing! 2y
xicanti @merelybookish I‘m so glad I decided to read it this year. 2y
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xicanti
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I took Proust to Ikea, as you do. I had to put him aside for a bit because reading time was in short supply, but we‘re reunited now and I hope this is the home stretch. We‘ll see how the last 170 pages go.

NB: Ikea‘s piped in music was a weirdly good tonal fit with the narrator‘s third major time reclamation moment. Honestly, it shook me. I sat there in the returns & exchanges waiting area and had an Experience. #gaymay

Ruthiella I was kinda hoping you camped out in one of the tasteful fake living rooms at IKEA and read.😂 2y
xicanti @Ruthiella ha! Someday! 2y
Larkken A Proustian Experience sounds… intense. Lol 2y
xicanti @Larkken it truly was. 2y
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xicanti
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Snack prep for my 30th consecutive Readathon. I haven‘t missed one since September 2008, and this is probably the least I‘ve ever done in the lead-up. I didn‘t go out and buy any special snacks. I haven‘t really assembled a pile. I‘m just gonna read some Proust, finish the fantasy I‘m in the middle of, tackle at least one short story, slot in as much ElfQuest as I‘ve got time for, and listen to my audiobook while I play Candy Crush. #deweyapril

monalyisha What a streak! 2y
Ruthiella Wow! I‘m impressed! 😃 2y
BethM Love it! 2y
xicanti @monalyisha @Ruthiella @BethM it‘s been such a journey. 2y
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xicanti
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Supper involved enchilada peppers and Proust. To be honest, I got pretty durned tired of the narrator‘s creepy, controlling obsession with Albertine in the previous volumes, but I‘m HERE for his response to the upheavals World War I provoked. Gimme more.

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xicanti
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First bike ride to the library in 2023! The wind made it a real pain, but at least I got some exercise.

I picked up a couple books for my mum (who won‘t get her own library card 🤷‍♀️), Maureen Johnson‘s latest Stevie Bell mystery, two volumes of FENCE that just made it through processing, and the last volume of Proust. The end is in sight!

(As a sidebar, I‘m a bit annoyed Litsy‘s grouped my posts about Vol 1 under this listing. Sigh.)

Drnkpnkprincess I spy a Karin Slaughter! Have you been watching the tv show? 2y
xicanti @Drnkpnkprincess that‘s one of the ones for my mum! I haven‘t seen the show myself, but she loves it and asked me to request the book for her. 2y
Drnkpnkprincess @xicanti fair warning- it might spoil the show for her. This first book hasn‘t been in the show yet (not sure if it will) and her books are much more graphic than the show. The second book however, was the first two episodes of the show. I haven‘t decided if I like the route the show is going, but I‘m very happy more people are getting to know Slaughter‘s work. 2y
xicanti @Drnkpnkprincess I‘ll give her a head‘s up! I‘ll be already warned her I‘ve heard the books are really dark, and she says she‘s fine with that. 2y
Drnkpnkprincess @xicanti hahaha okay phew! My mom said the same thing and then was like “woah” LOL 2y
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xicanti
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I‘m puppysitting wee Allie this afternoon, and she‘s stepped up to help me wallow in the last hundred pages of SWANN‘S WAY. It‘s still amazing. Why didn‘t anyone tell me Proust was so much fun? I picked up the next volume on the way over here so I can dive in next week.

BarbaraBB It isn‘t always as easy and intriguing as Swann‘s Way but it is definitely worth reading! 2y
xicanti @BarbaraBB I‘m excited to have this glorious expanse in front of me. 2y
dabbe Those eyebrows! That Face! Hard to look at the book with sweet Allie there! ❣️🐾❣️ 2y
xicanti @dabbe she does have exceptionally dramatic eyebrows. 2y
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xicanti
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This afternoon I enjoyed the classic combination of Marcel Proust and chili-cheese fried corn. And enjoyed is definitely the word for it, because I‘M TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THIS BOOK. I expected it to be worthwhile, but I had no idea it‘d be so readable, or that it‘d do such glorious things with the relationship between interiority and outside influence. If I didn‘t have so many non-renewable library books on hand, it‘d be my primary read.

CBee This book (or books) play a huge part in the book I finished today: 2y
xicanti @CBee loved that book! 2y
CBee @xicanti it was AMAZING! 2y
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Palimpsest
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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So I finished Time Regained at 1:00 o‘clock in the morning after reading this for over a year because I read other books in between. All I can say is wow. So much of Proust‘s writing in this volume is euphoric and how he decided to finish the ending makes me actually want to start writing instead of just making notes and thinking about my stories in my head. I loved this so much! ❤️

mabell How cool! 👏💕 2y
Graywacke Congrats and great picture! I have that same box on my shelves, but I only made it through book 2 in my first try several years ago. 2y
Ruthiella That‘s quite an accomplishment! Congratulations! 👏👏👏 2y
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vivastory Wonderful review! I have the first 2 volumes in the Lydia Davis translation but I'm thinking of getting the set that you read for a uniform experience 2y
Palimpsest @Graywacke thanks! Admittedly, some parts are a bit lengthy with descriptions and talking about individual personalities so I can understand setting them aside, but as a whole and the descriptions about colors and light etc. that are so beautiful that I loved the majority of it. 2y
Palimpsest @vivastory I‘m not familiar with that translation. I did try to listen to a little bit of Time Regained on Audible, but I don‘t know who the translator was. It was quite different than this one as the sentences were often transposed and of course different word choices. I did enjoy the style of this version. 2y
Graywacke @Palimpsest yes, some of those moments he captures… I really want to return to that. (Unfortunately I set it aside and then got intimidated by the attention it demands.) 2y
Leftcoastzen 👏👏👏👏👏 2y
AnneCecilie Congratulations 🎉 2y
batsy Well done! 🙌🏾🎉 A fantastic reading project. 2y
Bookwomble Fantastic reading achievement! I've wanted to read Proust for decades and never got to it - probably intimidated by the commitment required. Kudos to you 😊 2y
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AnneCecilie
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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Finished the 7th and final book of In Search of Lost Time. It has taken me a decade to read these books, so an era is over.

In this volume Proust covers WWI in Paris, have quite a discussion on literature and where his inspiration to write this books come from. He also looks at how time changes people, both how they look and who is “in”.

#1927 #192025
2nd book read for #JubilantJuly
#foodandlit #France

Andrew65 Well done, quite the achievement 👏👏👏 2y
Librarybelle Congratulations on finishing the set! 2y
Liz_M Congrats! 2y
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rachelm Congrats!! 2y
sarahbarnes Wow, well done! I‘ve been trying to do that for years! 2y
ravenlee What an accomplishment! Congratulations! 2y
EvieBee 👏 👏 2y
DivineDiana Cheers to you! 👏🏻📚👏🏻 2y
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Michael_Gee
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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Wow, deep. Thank you, Duolingo!

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MariaW
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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Too many things to do, so only reading articles today. This one is about Proust, who would have celebrated his 150th birthday these days.

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Booksnchill
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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Well 2020 came to a close and so did my year long Immersion in Proust. There is an article from the New York Times that I found recently written by another reader who experienced the “plague year” reading Proust and finding, much as I did, that he was an excellent companion bringing diversion, observation and reflection in a way that resonated with me this year. I will miss him but I am sure I will return - if just to passages, for his language

LeahBergen Brava! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 (and what a beautiful teacup and saucer!) 4y
Booksnchill @LeahBergen Thank you- I got those in London back when there was travel! 4y
TheBookHippie I got through 1-4 hoping to finish as soon as I can get the rest. 🤍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼to you!! 4y
rubyslippersreads Quite an accomplishment (and quite a teacup)! 😊 4y
KarouBlue Very well said! 4y
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Yeah! Proust gets it‼️📖🤓❤️

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Michael_Gee
Time Regained | Marcel Proust

The greatness of true art [...] lies in rediscovering, grasping hold of, and making us recognize this reality, distant as it is from our daily lives, and growing more and more distant as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes denser and more impermeable, this reality which we run a real risk of dying without having known, and which is quite simply our life.

Centique I‘ve only read Swanns Way but wow - I agree that Proust has rare and wonderful insights, he boggles my mind. Will read vol 2 next year! Have you read all of the series? 4y
Michael_Gee @Centique Yes! I agree. There is so much of it I have to read a couple times to come close to understanding. Swann‘s Way was my favorite until this one, but the final volume is amazing. I really enjoyed the second volume, too. I‘ve read one each summer: seven years with Proust! Some of them I will be honest were a slog. The Captive and the Fugitive: oof. But it has been a wonderful journey. 4y
Centique Yes! I struggle to stay attentive enough through so many long sentences. I found listening on audio and then rereading was really helpful - but finding an audio I like is hard. There was a good free one on Youtube but it only covered half of Swann‘s Way. 4y
Michael_Gee @Centique oh my I get it. If my brain isn‘t on it flows right through me leaving nothing behind. I tell myself that is just part of the experience. I read an article about reading Proust on a phone with continuous scrolling that compared it to floating down a river in a glass bottomed boat. 4y
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Michael_Gee
Time Regained | Marcel Proust

As for the enjoyment the beautifully expressed thought of a master gives to a truly discerning mind or a spirit that is genuinely alive, it is probably entirely healthy but, however prized the men may be who can really appreciate it (and how many of them are there in 20 years?), It does reduce them to being no more than the complete consciousness of another.

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Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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⬆️ Bombs are falling on Paris, but in the catacombs of the Metro, you may get lucky, you may “bite straight into the fruit without coveting it with your eyes and without asking permission.”

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BarbaraBB
Time Regained | Marcel Proust
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This last volume of ‘In Search of Lost Times‘ was a real worthwhile grande finale in which all characters of the past come by again and in which the wonderful heartbreaking title of the work proves its meaning.
Marcel‘s observations about aging and losing youth and your past are spot-on.

#ReadingEurope2020 🇫🇷

Librarybelle I‘ve not read anything by Proust. Your review really makes me want to try one of his books! 5y
Ruthiella You are tempting me to take the plunge ! 5y
Liz_M The first and the last volumes are the best! 5y
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Aimeesue
The Past Recaptured | Marcel Proust
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The last Backlisted podcast episode made me think seriously about reading the whole of Proust this year, bit by bit. I suppose I'll have to keep myself in les madeleines, as it only seems appropriate.

merelybookish Ambitious! I tried to read him in my 20s but found it too daunting. But maybe I'll try again someday! 5y
Aimeesue @merelybookish I plan on going v e r y slowly and bribing myself with madeleines. 😄 5y
JenniferP I read the whole thing in 2017 and though there are parts that get boring or bogged down it just might be my favorite reading experience. I think about it all the time and want to reread the whole thing some day! 5y
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LeahBergen I‘ve only read the first volume but though it was wonderful. 5y
Aimeesue @JenniferP That is so reassuring! 5y
Aimeesue @LeahBergen I only read 25 pages this afternoon and I'm a little stunned. The whole description of the way the mind works while going to sleep/ awakening. Sleep really is very odd if you think about it. (edited) 5y
Bookish.SAM I tried to get through it all a couple of years ago. Only made it through the first 3 volumes as I found myself losing interest as I went, but that first volume and the passages you mention still have me wanting to try again. I found format makes a difference. I read vol 1 -3 in different print versions with varying success and then tried e-book for the 4th and couldn‘t get into it. (edited) 5y
Bookish.SAM Madeleines might make for a good reward system though 🤔😊 5y
Ruthiella You can do it!😀 5y
Simona These are 'plotless' stories requiring dedication, concentration and time, but the ultimate reading experience/reward is priceless. Finger crossed ... finger crossed that you will liked them. 5y
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