I bought my copy of Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" (or more appropriately "In Search of Lost Time") back in the summer of (April) 2007.
A la recherce du temps perdu was my college graduation gift to myself, and I was very proud to own it in it's entirety. Now almost three years later I've only managed to finish the first two books: Swann's Way and Within A Budding Grove.
I believe that there are books that you get to appreciate more as you get older. Handling those massive tomes during those days was a bit of a daunting task physically and mentally for me. I found myself lost in Proust's long and meandering sentences...
But surprisingly I found the humor of it to be delightful, and as I went on I found that the rich passages were a thing to be savored.
*Note on my edition
I am reading the old C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin translation.
It is the one published by Vintage Books in 3 Volumes with the black on silver art nouveau covers.
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Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
about the author
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
about the reader
I am a 23-year old Art Director from Manila, Philippines.
Literature is a big passion of mine because I think that profound literary insights make life worth living. There is just something about the written word that inspires me a lot: seeing the printed words on acid-free paper, the tactile pleasure of a deckle-edge on ones fingers, the smell of a newly minted book, and that sudden rapture from a moving passage--all of it!
I am one of those people who loves to share the experience of a great book, I think I'm never going to get tired of it.
Literature is a big passion of mine because I think that profound literary insights make life worth living. There is just something about the written word that inspires me a lot: seeing the printed words on acid-free paper, the tactile pleasure of a deckle-edge on ones fingers, the smell of a newly minted book, and that sudden rapture from a moving passage--all of it!
I am one of those people who loves to share the experience of a great book, I think I'm never going to get tired of it.