mattmclimans 's review for:

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
4.0

Sometimes wordy, but when this book clicks, it is lyrical magic. There seem to be only two types of men in this story: those who are stiff and snobbish and those who are perpetually in love for no good reason with women who are incapable of truly returning their affection. I could have done with less of the backstory. I feel that the philosophy of memory being inextricable from the present is truly magic.