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A review by david_rhee
The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
4.0
In Proust's 6th installment of Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel loses his grip on his captive Albertine just as the title suggests. Revealing anything more would qualify as a spoiler which one would be wise to avoid in a 6th volume of a 3000 page novel. The plot has two sharp turns, one which shapes most of the present volume and the other which I would guess is to be developed in the 7th and final volume.
The reader is once again treated to gliding and flowing reflections on memory, jealousy, love as it is affected by absence and the passage of time, and a few interesting takes on the different versions of the self which arise from a dynamic personality as it is forged by experience. The end of the volume catches the reader up on the marriages of the upcoming generation which promise a profound wave of change in the aristocracy.
The reader is once again treated to gliding and flowing reflections on memory, jealousy, love as it is affected by absence and the passage of time, and a few interesting takes on the different versions of the self which arise from a dynamic personality as it is forged by experience. The end of the volume catches the reader up on the marriages of the upcoming generation which promise a profound wave of change in the aristocracy.