Proust reading

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.

4 Comments

Michael 29 June 2007

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!

Sheena 29 June 2007

I won’t harrow your soul by telling you that I’ve just embarked on my biannual reread of The Lord of the Rings…

CW 29 June 2007

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!

Tom Goodfellow 11 July 2007

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!