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A review by omnibozo22
Time Regained by Marcel Proust
3.0
Whew. Done. Finally.
Marcel finally sets himself down to die, but not before he actually revisits the remaining fogies that still infest Paris. He rehashes past gossip and regrets a few past stupidities. He looks back over the nonevents that made up most of his life and provided the material for his scribblings.
The work in total clearly influenced Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, which did much the same in a more entertaining style, for British society of approximately the same time, in the early volumes.
I'm unlikely to reread any of Lost Time, but if I did, I'd want to significantly bone up my ancient high school French and attempt it in the original.
Marcel finally sets himself down to die, but not before he actually revisits the remaining fogies that still infest Paris. He rehashes past gossip and regrets a few past stupidities. He looks back over the nonevents that made up most of his life and provided the material for his scribblings.
The work in total clearly influenced Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, which did much the same in a more entertaining style, for British society of approximately the same time, in the early volumes.
I'm unlikely to reread any of Lost Time, but if I did, I'd want to significantly bone up my ancient high school French and attempt it in the original.