Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 11 (The End!) 13 Apr 202613 Apr 2026 I have at last finished reading Proust’s signature work, A la recherche du temps perdu. I read it in French, because I read French well and I enjoy reading it, but…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 10 9 Sep 202113 Apr 2026 I finally finished Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe last night. I read it slowly in bits and pieces, because "M," Proust's narrator, becomes truly insufferable in this volume. Whether Proust meant…
book review Musings on Proust, Part 9 12 Feb 202113 Apr 2026 Proust Goes for a Laugh Proust had a bit of fun at his own expense in a comic bit that he put in is own words for a change, in…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 8 27 Dec 202013 Apr 2026 If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part Seven 12 Sep 202013 Apr 2026 Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part Six 21 Jun 202013 Apr 2026 I am done (shall I say, "at long last"?) with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Tome II of La recherche. When last we left our hero, he was…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part 5 13 May 202013 Apr 2026 I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 4 15 Apr 202013 Apr 2026 Having finished not with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs as I had at first vainly imagined, but only Part 1 of Tome 2, I prepare to plunge into…
Author post Musings on Proust, part 3 7 Apr 202013 Apr 2026 I am halfway through A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, and here Proust meanders onward, ever onward...except when he goes left, or right, or back for a while, or…
Author post Musings on Proust, Part 2 31 Mar 202013 Apr 2026 Finished Du coté de chez Swann last night.... Okay, I'm beginning to wonder whether I feel about Proust (so far, having read one volume out of seven, each of which…
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