Proust reading

Thanks, Michael, for the five tips on reading Proust.

I have achieved your first tip at least:

1. Buy In Search of Lost Time, all of it, up front. Making the investment will increase the likelihood that you’ll finish. (Imagine the ignominy of bringing the unread volumes to a used-book store!)

Now I need to work on the others, especially #5, perseverance.

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Comments (4)

  1. Michael wrote::

    I hope these suggestions help, CW. Once you get beyond Swann’s Way, it gets more difficult to turn back. By then you have momentum!

    Friday, June 29, 2007 at 7:31 am #
  2. Sheena wrote::

    I won’t harrow your soul by telling you that I’ve just embarked on my biannual reread of The Lord of the Rings…

    Friday, June 29, 2007 at 8:46 am #
  3. CW wrote::

    Thanks Michael, I’ll just have to keep persevering!

    Sheena, I actually read the entire LOTR every couple years too. And I don’t find that harrowing at all!

    Friday, June 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm #
  4. Tom Goodfellow wrote::

    I’m afraid I didn’t get beyond Swann’s Way. I just didn’t get on with it, which was odd – I love Ulysses, for example, and I’m currently cracking through War and Peace. Good luck with it!

    Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 9:35 am #