Proust
Tue, 2002-11-05 23:05
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Proust
I've read the first 200 pages of book 1 and that included some of the best, most evocative passages I've ever read. Unfortunately I was about 2,400 pages from the end of book 6 when I got distracted by Raymond Chandler and men with guns.
Has anyone made it to the final bit? Is it worth the effort to get there? Should I buy the audio book?
chooselife
sheesh..... fish's posts are beginning to look like faithless'.... sheesh!
fish
they are SO not!
chooselife
careful, too much petulance and you'll sound like stoaty!
chant
they are! they are!
*jumps up and down clapping hands*
chooselife
have they ever been seen in the same room?
and would one of them survive?
Tony Cook
I got given the whole lot in six volumes. Read the first one but it took me ages. Really must start on volume two. I did enjoy it but those sentences! I found one that lasted over two pages. I became so distracted by the style that I found myself missing the meaning - but maybe that's the Zen way of reading Proust and what he wanted all along. It's almost like taking in fiction by osmosis. I will persevere. I will, I will, I will.
tzara
Yes life is too short..............
freda
i never heard of em
andrew o'donnell
Read Swann's Way, Swann in Love and started Within a Budding something or other. Perhaps I didn't read it right.. in bits if I remember.. liked Swann's Way a lot but not sure.. Maybe better to read Ondaatje or Jean Genet.. the writing with them seems much more real and not as flowery. One image struck me tho.. is it the beginning or the end of Swann's Way where he's describing his room and how it goes through all these minute changes.. ? That's bloody awesome writing, that is!.. will get back to the Budding something at some point, I hope.
No.. but life is not too short. Would choose Brothers Karamazov over this for my next 'challenging' book, tho.
Wolfgirl
Finish it...it is worth it. 2,400 pages? Pah, a monkey could read that....
jonsmalldon
I was just about to type in the noise a monkey might make and realised that I haven't got a clue how to do that. But assume that I just have.
fish
i read botton's "how proust can change your life" and bought book 1 ... i realise this is like reading "the tao of pooh" and thinking you are spiritual ... but anyway ... i started it (proust that is) and read about 60 pages ... three times i have started it ... i would like to read it one day ... but maybe life is too short...
it isn't that i didn't like it ... and maybe if i ever take a long haul flight again i will read it ... i said that because i think the mind set you need for a long haul flight is perhaps the mind set i need to read proust ...
the other thought i had was that it would be possible to make it a life's work for a person and their partner to read it aloud to each other in bed at night ... but seeing as i have never been any good at marriage i possibly lack the commitment to do this ...