galaheadh 's review for:

Swann's Way, Part 1 by Marcel Proust

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

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read the first part ("Overture"). i still want to read the rest, but it's not exactly suited to a library loan and after a bit of research i have decided to try a different translation

"That must be delightful," sighed my grandfather, in whose mind nature had unfortunately forgotten to include any capacity whatsoever for becoming passionately interested in the co-operative movement among the ladies of Sweden or in the methods employed by Maubant to get up his parts, just as it had forgotten to endow my grandmother's two sisters with a grain of that precious salt which one has oneself to 'add to taste' in order to extract any savour from a narrative of the private life of Molé or of the Comte de Paris.