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Simple Torture · **Posted:** Sat April 03, 2021 9:08 pm

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

I got all the way through Sodom and Gomorrah, which may have been my favorite in the series so far, but Swan's Way is a great encapsulation of Proust's style and project, and I would totally recommend you just stop there when you finish.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Sat April 03, 2021 9:19 pm

Got this book yesterday after about 3 months of waiting for it to ship. European shipping is a mess right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtmoZkcHts

Not as interesting as The Electric State, but he's great with that tone.

I'd like to do an illustrated book like this one day.

Mickey · **Posted:** Sat April 03, 2021 9:57 pm

Simple Torture wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

I got all the way through Sodom and Gomorrah, which may have been my favorite in the series so far, but Swan's Way is a great encapsulation of Proust's style and project, and I would totally recommend you just stop there when you finish.

Yeah I started In The Shadow of the Young Girls In Flower and it didn't have the same appeal, in part because Marcel was just so unbearably horny. But I also wondered about the translation because the writing style seemed to shift drastically. I know Lydia Davis did the first volume for Penguin and someone else did the second.

Simple Torture · **Posted:** Sat April 03, 2021 10:23 pm

I read the Penguin editions on my own, and then we used the Modern Library editions when I took a Proust class ~10 years ago, and the Penguins were much more readable iirc.

epilogue · **Posted:** Sun April 04, 2021 2:43 am

Mickey wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Mickey wrote:

epilogue wrote:

I'm giving Swann's Way a go, finally.

Beautiful book. One of my all-time favorites. You have to really commit to "Swann in Love" to get the payoff but it's arguably better than "Combray."

I got all the way through Sodom and Gomorrah, which may have been my favorite in the series so far, but Swan's Way is a great encapsulation of Proust's style and project, and I would totally recommend you just stop there when you finish.

Yeah I started In The Shadow of the Young Girls In Flower and it didn't have the same appeal, in part because Marcel was just so unbearably horny. But I also wondered about the translation because the writing style seemed to shift drastically. I know Lydia Davis did the first volume for Penguin and someone else did the second.

I'm reading the Lydia Davis translation of Swann's Way.

I have no intention of going further right now. We'll see if that changes when I'm done.

Simple Torture · **Posted:** Sun April 04, 2021 3:01 am

There was a 15-year break between the publication of S+G and the Prisoner in the Penguin series--from what I understand, they had to wait for the later volumes to enter the public domain. Take a look at what happened to the spines during that break; someone in the design department deserves to be beheaded.

epilogue · **Posted:** Sun April 04, 2021 3:27 am

Great, now I'm despondent

ghost · **Posted:** Thu April 08, 2021 5:45 pm

Totally forgot that I pre-ordered this until it showed up yesterday. Now I just gotta get through the 3 other books ahead of it in line.

I could probably just plow through it this weekend but that's a lot of despair to take in all at once.

Mickey · **Posted:** Thu April 08, 2021 7:05 pm

Willy's so great.

Anders · **Posted:** Thu April 08, 2021 9:37 pm

Read this today.

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Fri April 09, 2021 11:17 pm

Got a pleasant surprise in the mail today. Don't know what's up with the card... But I guess I have Gore Verbinski's autograph now.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm **Posts:** 42065

BurtReynolds wrote:

Got a pleasant surprise in the mail today. Don't know what's up with the card... But I guess I have Gore Verbinski's autograph now.

was this mailed from henderson, nevada?

ghost · **Posted:** Wed April 14, 2021 5:49 pm

re-reading this for a shot of hope before I dive back down into the usual misery porn

BurtReynolds · **Posted:** Thu April 15, 2021 5:19 pm

I've been expanding my "Art of..." collection lately. Still need to pick up a few more.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu April 15, 2021 5:35 pm

Finished this:

Starting this:

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Fri April 16, 2021 9:07 pm

New George Saunders sounds amazing. Need to get my hands on it.

Ello Sailor · **Joined:** Sun March 12, 2017 3:06 pm **Posts:** 11817

Would anyone care to rank Dumas' novels for me? I loved The Count of Monte Cristo and have been meaning to pick up another of his.

ghost · **Posted:** Mon April 19, 2021 2:26 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:

New George Saunders sounds amazing. Need to get my hands on it.

My brother got me a signed copy of that Lincoln book but I still haven't read it. Should I?

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon April 19, 2021 2:30 pm

I think ST loved it? I havent read it hey, but Tenth of December blew me away, just in terms of what a wonderful writer he is.

epilogue · **Posted:** Mon April 19, 2021 3:47 pm

ghost wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

New George Saunders sounds amazing. Need to get my hands on it.

My brother got me a signed copy of that Lincoln book but I still haven't read it. Should I?

Yes!

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