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Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 6 - Finding Time Again | Marcel Proust

I'M DONE!! 🎉🎉 After 15 months, I wrapped up #morningswithmarcel.
It was a journey and there were some rough spots, but overall, I loved it. Brilliant! 🌸💗🌸

AlaMich Which translation did you read? I haven‘t read Proust but I read a very interesting collection of essays by one of his translators, Lydia Davis. She described in great detail her process and the problems that came up while translating him. It was fascinating. (edited) 8mo

sarahbarnes Wow!!!! That is amazing. Congratulations - that has to feel like such an accomplishment! 8mo

merelybookish @AlaMich I did the Modern Penguin Library edition. Each volume has a different translator but Lydia Davis did the first one. I can imagine he's challenging to translate! His vocabulary is rich! (I googled so many words!) But there's a lot of word play and he notices when people use idiom or local dialects. 8mo

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squirrelbrain Well done! 🎉🎉🎉 8mo

Librarybelle Congratulations! 8mo

batsy Amazing! 🙌🏾 Someday I hope to get there 💫 8mo

BarbaraBB Wow, you did that pretty fast! Glad you loved it and kudos for finishing 🏆🤍 8mo

julieclair Congrats! That's an achievement! 🏆🎉 8mo

Ruthiella Congratulations! 👏👏👏 8mo

dabbe Yowza! 🤩🤩🤩 8mo

Cuilin Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 impressive. 8mo

Billypar Oh my 😮 ...nice job! I always think maybe I'll read the first volume someday but never imagined reading them all. 8mo

LeahBergen Woohoo!! 🥳 8mo

jlhammar Impressive! 8mo

Tamra Amazing! 👏🏾 8mo

MaureenMc 👏🎊👏 8mo

Leftcoastzen Kudos! 8mo

merelybookish @squirrelbrain @Librarybelle @batsy @BarbaraBB @julieclair @LeahBergen @jlhammar @Tamra @MaureenMc @Leftcoastzen Thanks everyone! 🥰 8mo

merelybookish @Ruthiella @dabbe @Cuilin Thank you!!! I figured you guys would understand! 😊 8mo

merelybookish @Billypar if you read the first one, you might want to keep going! 8mo

Centique You are truly a legend! 8mo

Suet624 That's amazing. Such dedication! 8mo

vivastory 🤘 🤘 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 7mo

merelybookish @vivastory thanks Scott. I feel like when I saw you in December I was at a low point. But I managed to get through it. 7mo

vivastory I will attempt it at some point in the future, but have no idea if I'll make it through. I'd like to read at least the first couple. Do you have any more big projects on the horizon? 7mo

merelybookish @vivastory Not really. I am reading Woolf's diaries again. There's Zola 20 book series but not quite ready to commit to that. 😂😱 7mo

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The prisoner and the fugitive | Marcel Proust

My plan for 2023 was to tackle Proust's masterpiece, to spend my #morningswithMarcel. I figured it would be slow-going and that it might take me longer than a year.
And I was right.
I have about 100 pages left in Volume 5 (the hardest to get through BY FAR). Then one more volume.
It has been an enriching, stimulating, moving, and at time, dull and/or infuriating reading experience thus far. Will be sad & happy when I finally complete it.

BarbaraBB So great you kept doing it! It‘s a rewarding experience 💜 10mo

Ruthiella This is definitely something I want to achieve in my reading life. Maybe when I retire.🤞 10mo

merelybookish @BarbaraBB Thanks! It's not a quick read. 😛 10mo

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merelybookish @Ruthiella It's well worth doing! I just read in the morning with my coffee. Sometimes I only manage a few pages but it keeps me in it. 10mo

batsy I saw this and it made me think of your Proust reading project. Requires a sub but I think you can register with an email for two free articles per month https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/reading-and-time/ 10mo

Suet624 Impressive goal. 10mo

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Modern Classics in Search of Lost Time Volume 4: Sodom and Gomorrah (Revised) | Marcel Proust

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Finished another volume. This one felt longer, maybe because the narrator is growing increasingly annoying (and my annoying I mean a jealous, possessive a$$hole ?).That said, reading his depictions of gay men ("inverse" in early 20th century parlance) and gay relationships is fascinating knowing that Proust himself was gay. Because I would not say it's exactly flattering. (The narrator in the book is not.)
On to Volume 5! #morningswithMarcel

merelybookish Tagging @DrSabrinaMoldenReads since we seen to be in this together. 😉 13mo

DrSabrinaMoldenReads I already like the next volume a lot better. I feel so fooled by him because I did not know he was gay until I finished. He certainly was conflicted @merelybookish (edited) 11mo

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Modern Classics in Search of Lost Time Volume 4: Sodom and Gomorrah (Revised) | Marcel Proust

On to Volume 4. #morningswithmarcel

Centique You are a legend 🙌🙌 1y

merelybookish @Centique Lol. I'm making my pokey way through it. And I do enjoy it - mostly. 1y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Those Wednesdays became unbearable. His tangents were off the wall @merelybookish 11mo

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time: Volume II. Within A Budding Grove | Marcel Proust

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Finished the second volume of In Search of Lost Time. It marks the end of his first love with Gilberte and the introduction to his new love Albertine. (And much, much more of course! Such a crude summary fails to capture Proustian expansiveness.) I'm still into, still entranced, although some of his descriptions of young women did make me 🙄🤢🙄🤢🙄🤢
Onward to Volume 3! #morningswithmarcel

BarbaraBB You‘re doing so well! I loved the third book! 2y

merelybookish @BarbaraBB Thanks! And that's good to hear! 2y

Centique You‘re a legend! I will get to volume 2 one day 🤷🏻‍♀️ 1y

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Swann's Way | Marcel Proust

Zipporah, Jethro's's daughter -- a small detail from Botticelli's "The Trials of Moses."
I looked up this painting (like many Proust readers before me) because Swann believes Odette resembles this portrait, which helps him fall in love with her.
(It would seem that is not a great reason to fall in love with someone, or might not lead to lasting happiness.)
I'm about halfway through Volume 1. Still enjoying my #morningswithMarcel

JenniferP There‘s a fabulous book with glossy photos of all the paintings mentioned in Proust. It was a great companion book when I read Proust a few years ago.

Paintings in Proust: a visual companion to In search of lost time

merelybookish @JenniferP Thanks for the tip! Didn't realize reading Proust would be such an investment. 💸🙃 2y

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