Time Regained " In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self ." And every writer too, it would...

  The Sweet Cheat Gone / Albertine Disparue (2nd post) In this book Proust returns again and again to the idea of a sort of RAPTURE en...

The Sweet Cheat Gone This is the second last volume in Proust's masterpiece and it is difficult to discuss it without there being so...

T he Captive - Marcel Proust: Post Two One of the most effective scenes in The Captive is one in which Marcel, who rarely leaves his r...

Love the way these copies straddle the decimal divide. The Captive - Marcel Proust The captive is Albertine, who Marcel* keeps in his ...

Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) Second Post  I am building up a backlog of 'draft posts' at the moment and need to cle...

Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) I expected to be well finished my journey with Proust by this time but the year is proving a sl...

The Guermantes Way (Second Post) - Marcel Proust Well, so much for promises. ( see first post ) As Proust says, life is always a lit...

The Guermantes Way I am now half way through Proust 's masterpiece, and, I feel, gathering some impetus. In The Guermantes Way , Pr...

2012, A Reader's Eye View 2012 is proving a far less prolific reading year for me than 2011, even more so than I had planned . I kne...

Within a Budding Grove In Within a Budding Grove Proust builds on Swann's Way , subtly reworking events and perceptions from differ...

Within a Budding Grove I'm now finished the first four books of my twelve volume edition of Remembrance of Things Past , more slowly...

À la recherche du la Bourgeoisie I didn't expect to find a possible inspiration for Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ...

Kill yr Idols I've taken a break from In Search of Lost Time in order to read The Savage Detectives for next weekends readalong . ...

Swann's Way - Marcel Proust In which our author remembers his obsessive love for his mother and how it coloured his days and more pa...

Swann in Love La Dolce Vita As I read the following description I was forcibly reminded of Marcello in La Dolce Vita . His intelligence...

Proust on Giotto One of the pleasures that the internet can add to reading, is the opportunity, if your attention is arrested by a particu...

Plans for 2012 Last year I managed to kickstart my reading by setting myself a target of reading 100 books for the year. I made 85 before ...