6/30/2023 0 Comments Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust![]() The narrator – who is never named – awakening finds that “I could not be sure at first who I was … such as may lurk and flicker in the depths of an animal’s unconsciousness” (I’d love to read his thoughts on jet lag). Swann’s Way, the first book of Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time, opens in a sleepy haze. However sentences, phrases, clauses (bracketed thoughts – and dashed interruptions) proliferate to create labyrinthine, exhausting paragraphs. ![]() There are a lot of characters, but not so many that they are impossible to keep track of. The settings and descriptive passages are clear. The thing is, Proust’s prose is not that difficult. ![]() Reading an ebook, the percentages ticked by oh-so-slowly. I could read it only in bite-sized chunks, pushing on until I finished a paragraph or two. Lucky I was reading but a seventh of Proust’s modern monstrosity. ![]() Well, it only took me nearly three months. ![]()
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