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kenningjp's review against another edition
5.0
Perhaps one of the lesser read volumes but one of the most emotionally interesting. The narrator grows hot and cold with Albertine while Morel and Charlus do the same. If this were wrestling, we'd say this volume contains a few heel turns.
typescript_eliot's review
challenging
funny
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
darwin8u's review against another edition
5.0
“We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive or perhaps The Fugitive (I have now forgotten which)
This is the fifth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past. In the Captive, Proust's narrator is concerned about who Obama is in love with. The ardor of Speaker Boehner is face-to-face with the serenity of the House's hatred. The happiness that Congress knows is impossible, their fear that they will be rejected in the next election, faces the narrator with a dilemma -- does he leave the President he thinks he loves, or stay with the President he now ceases to love. The Fall, like the Spring of 17 years before, forces the narrator to shut government down to stir his soul to remind him of a vivid more pronounced period. Thinking of Gingrich, Boehner grips his heart in his hands as he discovers that the President has fled and left him alone, all alone, a captive in his own disgraced and ruined House.
― Marcel Proust, The Captive or perhaps The Fugitive (I have now forgotten which)
This is the fifth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time/Remembrance of Things Past. In the Captive, Proust's narrator is concerned about who Obama is in love with. The ardor of Speaker Boehner is face-to-face with the serenity of the House's hatred. The happiness that Congress knows is impossible, their fear that they will be rejected in the next election, faces the narrator with a dilemma -- does he leave the President he thinks he loves, or stay with the President he now ceases to love. The Fall, like the Spring of 17 years before, forces the narrator to shut government down to stir his soul to remind him of a vivid more pronounced period. Thinking of Gingrich, Boehner grips his heart in his hands as he discovers that the President has fled and left him alone, all alone, a captive in his own disgraced and ruined House.
lnatal's review against another edition
3.0
The original French text is available at La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec.
Le texte dactylographié du présent ouvrage, qui forme le tome V d’À la recherche du temps perdu, nous avait été remis par Marcel Proust peu de temps avant sa mort, la maladie ne lui ayant pas laissé la force de corriger complètement ce texte, une révision très soigneuse sur le manuscrit en fut entreprise après sa mort par le Dr Robert Proust et par Jacques Rivière. C’est le résultat de ce travail, où nous espérons qu’un minimum d’imperfections se laissera découvrir, que nous publions aujourd’hui.
L’ÉDITEUR.
Le texte dactylographié du présent ouvrage, qui forme le tome V d’À la recherche du temps perdu, nous avait été remis par Marcel Proust peu de temps avant sa mort, la maladie ne lui ayant pas laissé la force de corriger complètement ce texte, une révision très soigneuse sur le manuscrit en fut entreprise après sa mort par le Dr Robert Proust et par Jacques Rivière. C’est le résultat de ce travail, où nous espérons qu’un minimum d’imperfections se laissera découvrir, que nous publions aujourd’hui.
L’ÉDITEUR.
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