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Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19724 Location: Cumberland, RI
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.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
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.
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19724 Location: Cumberland, RI
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.
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.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19724 Location: Cumberland, RI
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.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Willy's so great.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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