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A review by likecymbeline
In Search of Lost Time: v.5: The Captive by Marcel Proust
Of course I'm still at it. If I was ever going to stop, it would've been in The Guermantes Way. As it is, I'm committed.
Our narrator continues his unlikable behaviour and all I want to do is free Albertine. However, the book is more readable either because I've become too used to the style, or because a service was done to the prose in Proust dying before he could go back to edit it.
For a man whose theme is memory, he sure forgets who died a few paragraphs before. At least three rather mundane but significant deaths are quickly retconned. What the hell, Marcel.
Our narrator continues his unlikable behaviour and all I want to do is free Albertine. However, the book is more readable either because I've become too used to the style, or because a service was done to the prose in Proust dying before he could go back to edit it.
For a man whose theme is memory, he sure forgets who died a few paragraphs before. At least three rather mundane but significant deaths are quickly retconned. What the hell, Marcel.