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ManyWordsLater
The Past Recaptured | Marcel Proust
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2024 wrap up:
41 books read
24 fiction
17 non-fiction
Favorites: More Work for Mother, Mother Tongue, Poverty by America, The Best of Everything

Ruthiella Nice work! 👏👏👏 1mo
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nanuska_153
In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust
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Finally managed to find a pretty enough edition of In Search of Lost Time. Definitely going to be one of my 2025 reading projects 🥰

Ruthiella Good luck! 👍 3mo
BarbaraBB Gorgeous edition! 3mo
nanuska_153 @Ruthiella thanks! I enjoyed so much Swann in love that I'm really looking forward to it 3mo
nanuska_153 @BarbaraBB thanks 😊 3mo
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Robotswithpersonality
Swann's Way (Centenary) | Marcel Proust
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Nostalgia and run-on sentences.
Recollections of a sad, anxious boy, his memories and accounts of people, often miserable, that he grew up around, scandals that are only scandals due to the attitudes of the time. Very little of the protagonist emerges amongst detailed descriptions of the scenery (nature and architecture), a few books, even place names, aside from his ambition to become a writer and the start of one love affair, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? which is linked into the large digression regarding the character of Swann, not the narrator, but arguably the protagonist for half the book.
Swann in Love is less a description of that 200 pages and more of a warning. All the ways he looked down on and manipulated Odette, then Odette seemingly turns the tables or Swann buys his own con and it devolves into toxic Chasing Amy vibes because of her reputation, only for her to show up later
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Robotswithpersonality 3/? married to him.
Proust can turn a phrase, whether it's in service of evocative imagery or a scathing insult from a society dame, but there's something overall that's not just wistful in tone but feels actively self-defeating. Not as clear cut as pessimism or cynicism, maybe just depression manifesting? Maybe this is just what it was to be this type of person in this era. I'm not inspired to pick up the next volume, even considering, or perhaps
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Robotswithpersonality because of, the way this one ended.

⚠️ antisemitism, classism, homophobia
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dabbe #fanofthepan! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo
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AllDebooks
Letters of Marcel Proust | Marcel Proust
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#Litsolace #Midsummersolace

What are you grateful for today?

I'm so very grateful for this wonderful Litsy community. It's such a safe, supportive group of people. 💚📚💚

wanderinglynn I‘m grateful for butterflies, moths, bees, bats, & other pollinators that play an important but often overlooked role in ecosystem health. 🌻 8mo
dabbe I'm grateful for yet another day! 💚💙💚 8mo
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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
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2/5
First, I think these poems were collected mostly from personal letters Proust sent to friends, so they were not intended for publication.
Because of this, they are not polished, they tend to be simplistic in the rhymes, but also they contain a lot of personal references or references to characters from that period, which can make their context difficult to understand.

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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) 11mo
sarahbarnes Wow!!!! That is amazing. Congratulations - that has to feel like such an accomplishment! 11mo
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. 11mo
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squirrelbrain Well done! 🎉🎉🎉 11mo
Librarybelle Congratulations! 11mo
batsy Amazing! 🙌🏾 Someday I hope to get there 💫 11mo
BarbaraBB Wow, you did that pretty fast! Glad you loved it and kudos for finishing 🏆🤍 11mo
julieclair Congrats! That's an achievement! 🏆🎉 11mo
Ruthiella Congratulations! 👏👏👏 11mo
dabbe Yowza! 🤩🤩🤩 11mo
Cuilin Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 impressive. 11mo
Billypar Oh my 😮 ...nice job! I always think maybe I'll read the first volume someday but never imagined reading them all. 11mo
LeahBergen Woohoo!! 🥳 11mo
jlhammar Impressive! 11mo
Tamra Amazing! 👏🏾 11mo
MaureenMc 👏🎊👏 11mo
Leftcoastzen Kudos! 11mo
merelybookish @Ruthiella @dabbe @Cuilin Thank you!!! I figured you guys would understand! 😊 11mo
merelybookish @Billypar if you read the first one, you might want to keep going! 11mo
Centique You are truly a legend! 11mo
Suet624 That's amazing. Such dedication! 10mo
vivastory 🤘 🤘 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 10mo
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. 10mo
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? 10mo
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. 😂😱 10mo
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Taylor
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I loved it, but I had to read it like a possessed person to get through it.... Actually that‘s how it has been for me with all of Proust.

As usual with these editions, the translator's intro in the beginning is excellent.

Some of this installment is like a fever dream; a new type of Proust. Fantasies and dreams and memories flood the reader. The prose is incredible as always, the observations revelatory. I also gasped audibly at one part.