Reviews

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust

zjanda's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

poetry of the incomprehensible

A stirring, thoughtful, and poetic experience. At times transcendent and dull. Very grateful to have read these books . I wish I could remember what I thought they were about before I started. It has been completely unique experience.

ibm's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

eliathereader's review against another edition

4.0

Benim için çok farklı bir okuma deneyimi oldu Kayıp Zamanın İzinde. Her ay bir cildini okuyarak ilerledim ve bu süre içerisinde edebiyat anlayışımı sarsmayı ve yeniden farklı bir şekilde oluşturmayı başardı. Bazı kitaplardan eskisi kadar keyif alamazken bazı kitaplardan beklemediğim bir keyfi almaya başladım. Proust okuma anlayışımın dönüm noktasını oluşturdu. Yakalanan Zaman döngünün son kısmını anlatıyor ve bir arayışa odaklanırken geçmişle bugün arasında gidip geliyor. Beğendim, yoruldum, bitirdim.

ericfheiman's review against another edition

4.0

I’d say 4.5 stars, and maybe the best of the series. Death supersedes love at my age…

galatee's review against another edition

5.0

ces dernières pages, une des plus belles lectures de ma vie

georgea_1234's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

ajitate's review against another edition

4.0

Well it's been quite a journey! It's taken a few years for me to get through all the volumes of this feted work and coincidentally I finished the great journey of Virginia Woolfs diaries and letters only two days ago also, so I will always think of them in parallel as they have both kept me such wonderful company so long.
In this last book Proust gathers all his loose threads together criss-crossing all the 'ways' and characters together into a plait showing how they all relate. Finally, the plait is tied in a neat bow and that bow is Mlle de Saint-Loup, grandaughter of Odette and Swan (the Meseglise Way) and the Guermantes line (the Guermantes Way), and daughter of Gilberte and Robert de Saint-Loup. A satisfying end to a long and winding journey where the path was studded with gold.

lindseysparks's review against another edition

3.0

I'm finished!!!!!! I didn't manage to finish before my trip to Paris in October, but I did manage to finish this year. I'm not sure I can say I liked it, but I am glad I read it. I don't think it needed to be so long. I think he rambles too much - and I know that's the point - but I did like his musings on the passage of time and how people change and how we're not always good at seeing how we've changed. It's much easier to look at your former classmates and see that they are getting old, but much harder to see that you are also getting old. Memories are also hard to see clearly. We may vividly remember things one way only to talk to someone else who remembers it totally differently. None of us see the world exactly the same way anyone else does.

teresac's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

allisonjpmiller's review against another edition

5.0

Worth it.