A review by literarianist
Pleasures and Days by Marcel Proust

4.0

“The divine guests that are announced by the voice of the waters, leaves and sky only ever deign to visit hearts which, by dwelling within themselves, have purified themselves.”

To My Friend Willie Heath – 4/5
The Death of Baldassare Silvande – 4/5
Violante, or High Society – 4.5/5
Fragments from Italian Comedy – 3/5
Bouvard and Pécuchet on Society and Music – 5/5
Mme de Breyves’s Melancholy Summer Vacation – 5/5
Portraits of Painters and Musicians – 3/5
The Confession of a Young Woman – 5/5
A Dinner in Town – 3/5
Nostalgia – Daydreams under Changing Skies – 4/5
The End of Jealousy – 5/5