Hats beware!: The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Some of my thoughts on finishing The Guermantes Way, volume 3 of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
Books mentioned:
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The sad section you mentioned is one of the few times a book has made me sob. Very well done.
Thanks for watching--it is an amazing piece of work that could probably stand on it's own as a novella.
Poor hat, never did anyone any harm. I love how you can take a “most boring” meandering waffle and find all the giggles, puzzlements, and insights. When you talk about these characters and their goings-on, I’d swear you're telling us stories of people you’ve actually met.
Thanks, Patricia--you're too kind. Would be good if there weren't like, 100 pages between puzzlements!
Doesn't the narrator realize how boring the 200-page party is? At the time I guessed that was the point of that long and boring scene. Either way, great you are promoting In search of lost time!!
Thanks for watching. I think the narrator is thrilled to have finally been invited into that world but is having his illusions about it slowly crushed.
Volume 4 tells us Charlus is tediously gay and so's the narrator. 300 pages in am still wondering if they will kiss. Am pretending to care as I patiently wait for a delicious description or a bit of philosophy. Has happened so still reading.
Proust spoiler! "tediously gay" is the only kind of gay there could be in this book.
About his book prisoner
Hi. What about The Prisoner? That's about 700 pages in my future. Do you like it?
@@JamesRuchala like to know the plot heard about the book in a song lyrics I liked but yes if you were to read it online I would join in
@@JamesRuchala Are we preparing to race to volume 5? Speed read Proust? Gonna' try. Will report.
You are not convincing me to finish _Swann’s Way._ I didn’t find your excerpts tedious though (nor tediously gay).
Runciman and Adams seem to be keeping you plenty busy these days and it's making me want to throw my plans over and read long books about the crusades too.