Thanks, Michael, for the five tips on reading Proust.
I have achieved your first tip at least:
1. Buy In Search of Lost Time, all of it, up front. Making the investment will increase the likelihood that you’ll finish. (Imagine the ignominy of bringing the unread volumes to a used-book store!)
Now I need to work on the others, especially #5, perseverance.
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I hope these suggestions help, CW. Once you get beyond Swann’s Way, it gets more difficult to turn back. By then you have momentum!
I won’t harrow your soul by telling you that I’ve just embarked on my biannual reread of The Lord of the Rings…
Thanks Michael, I’ll just have to keep persevering!
Sheena, I actually read the entire LOTR every couple years too. And I don’t find that harrowing at all!
I’m afraid I didn’t get beyond Swann’s Way. I just didn’t get on with it, which was odd – I love Ulysses, for example, and I’m currently cracking through War and Peace. Good luck with it!