3/5 And I am through Combray and on to Swann in Love in what may well be the ultimate slow read. 3/21 Finished Swann in Love. Those intricate sentences3/5 And I am through Combray and on to Swann in Love in what may well be the ultimate slow read. 3/21 Finished Swann in Love. Those intricate sentences are like whirlpools, like Swann drowning in his obsessive love. 3/30 Place Names (pp. 416-462) and Swann's Way completed. ... the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years. 4/6 Switching to individual volumes because 3365 pp. 4/28 Finished Madame Swann At Home. 6/12 Finished Place Names: The Place and Volume 1. Methinks I may not finish in 2022, but better to savor this.
11.25.22 Finished The Fugitive, could have sworn I'd posted dates for The Captive, but GR hates my tablet. (view spoiler)[I must confess, there were t11.25.22 Finished The Fugitive, could have sworn I'd posted dates for The Captive, but GR hates my tablet. (view spoiler)[I must confess, there were times I've wanted to shake Marcel over his emotional to-ings and fro-ings with Albertine, only to have it all end in great big rien.... (hide spoiler)]
On to Time Regained and the last 398 pages. I may finish by year's end.
Finished Chapter 1 of The Guermantes Way at long last. (view spoiler)[Anyone who’s ever been there for the last hours of a loved one—the changes in brFinished Chapter 1 of The Guermantes Way at long last. (view spoiler)[Anyone who’s ever been there for the last hours of a loved one—the changes in breath, the hands fighting off death—will find their heart breaking anew over the death of Marcel’s beloved grandmother. (hide spoiler)]
July 30. Finished The Guermantes Way, meaning I’m about halfway through. Alas the glue has given out for a considerable chunk of Chapter Two, so I have to check out of the library the single volumes of the Modern Library edition, essentially the same translation.
September 12. Finished Sodom and Gomorrah/Cities of the Plain....more
Zany, charming tale of the mostly hapless Valentin Bru and the laughably vulgar family he marries into. Also, it’s the end of the thirties and there’sZany, charming tale of the mostly hapless Valentin Bru and the laughably vulgar family he marries into. Also, it’s the end of the thirties and there’s a war coming/not coming to France....more
I started reading this book from the library and it's a wonderful look at a Paris that disappeared between the cracks. There are glimpses of it in litI started reading this book from the library and it's a wonderful look at a Paris that disappeared between the cracks. There are glimpses of it in literature--everyone from Zola to Modiano--but Sante thoroughly exhumes the darker aspects of the City of Light.
I decided this was one I had to have on my Besotted With Paris™ bookshelf and have been eagerly awaiting the paperback release. I don't often write proper reviews but if I win this giveaway, you betcha I'll write a review....more
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