A review by numbersarereal
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust

It's somewhat tiring to read since Proust is circling around ideas so consistently that you are reading almost the same story n times in a row. That being said his circling is very good - he writes extremely well. The floridity you would expect but none of the pretence. I think he is at his best when he is writing about nature rather than society which is the obvious minority of the two topics. Highlights (from memory) are, The Confessions of a Young Woman, The story of the retired captain (Nostalgia 7) and In defence of bad music.