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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
Fuck you Marcel Proust. If I wanted to spend months of my life listening to run-on sentences about unrequited love, I’d go back to middle school.
Honestly, the sentences didn’t bother me. They were well-structured when he was able to keep my attention to the end of one of them. My problem with this book was that it was so boring. A whole chapter about an obsession with one’s mom’s kiss is creepy to begin with. When that chapter lasts for nearly half of a six-hundred-page book, we’ve got a problem.
Chapter two seemed like it was about to get the story moving, comparatively, but then it flaccidly delivers us another two hundred pages of “oh me, oh my, I’m a cuckold in denial!”
Finally we get to chapter 3, where we discover that-surprise, surprise-oedipus’s love life is still a failure, and the cuckold married the cuckolder. The end.
Lost time indeed.
Honestly, the sentences didn’t bother me. They were well-structured when he was able to keep my attention to the end of one of them. My problem with this book was that it was so boring. A whole chapter about an obsession with one’s mom’s kiss is creepy to begin with. When that chapter lasts for nearly half of a six-hundred-page book, we’ve got a problem.
Chapter two seemed like it was about to get the story moving, comparatively, but then it flaccidly delivers us another two hundred pages of “oh me, oh my, I’m a cuckold in denial!”
Finally we get to chapter 3, where we discover that-surprise, surprise-oedipus’s love life is still a failure, and the cuckold married the cuckolder. The end.
Lost time indeed.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
An amazing book. An amazing book that took me six months to wade through because it's incredibly boring as well as incredibly written. There is so much to think about in this book, but it's deceptive, because there's also nothing really happening.
If you read this: be forewarned. For six hundred pages, nothing really happens. But at the same time it's so evocative, so pretty, so packed with the way things are sometimes. This book drove me out of my mind, but at the same time I loved it.
If you read this: be forewarned. For six hundred pages, nothing really happens. But at the same time it's so evocative, so pretty, so packed with the way things are sometimes. This book drove me out of my mind, but at the same time I loved it.
read the first part ("Overture"). i still want to read the rest, but it's not exactly suited to a library loan and after a bit of research i have decided to try a different translation
"That must be delightful," sighed my grandfather, in whose mind nature had unfortunately forgotten to include any capacity whatsoever for becoming passionately interested in the co-operative movement among the ladies of Sweden or in the methods employed by Maubant to get up his parts, just as it had forgotten to endow my grandmother's two sisters with a grain of that precious salt which one has oneself to 'add to taste' in order to extract any savour from a narrative of the private life of Molé or of the Comte de Paris.
emotional
reflective
Proust’s ability to make descriptions of his past seem ethereal yet grounded, palpable yet fleeting, along with powerful storytelling detailing the acute absurdity of being in love, make this a worthwhile read despite the author’s affinity for run-on sentences.