/lit/ - Literature

>>22843506
>Outside of a few niche areas most readers are not going to sit through 20 pages of description for the sake of description.
you're also retarded. what, you pick this up from some "How To Write Damn Shit Fucking Good Fiction" book at barnes and noble?
>picrel
>inb4 but but but all that has a purpose
it does, but not the vulgar, quotidian purpose of plot or revealing character. some of it, sure. all of it, no.
>inb4 but but but that's niche
it's the greatest novel of the 20th century if you think it's a niche you're a retard

I'm about to buy this version (for under $50). Hope I'm making the right choice. I'm working on my French but I am not at that level yet

What are some other novels which significantly discuss art -- painting, writing, etc.?

Should i read straight through or take a break every volume?

Enjoy, Brendan.

In Search of Lost Time complete collection.

No idea, but they're definitely the most aesthetic of what is available. The Penguin ones have decled edges.

The appropriately-named six-volume tale, renowned for being both prohibitively long and, as such, something that few have actually read (and, when they do, that they read for things like "indie cred" similar to infamous postmodern works such as Infinite Jest or Ulysses), begins with a predictably drawn out contemplation of how our behaviour and habits influence our perception of the world imposed on the backdrop of a mellow narrative set in a (I think). The author's grand rambling style accomplishes something not to be seen with more than negligible frequency in the medium of the written word, only sparingly in cinema and much more frequently in the videoludic medium, which would not be invented until long after the author's death; For this reason, it would be appropriate to compare videogame titles like Dark Souls and S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which make use of fundamental components of their format to impress part of the story in a kind of complicated and very personal subtext upon the audience (putting the audience in the place of the protagonist by forcing them to feel similar things through their agency in the story, for example leaving the audience in the dark about the lore of the land in Dark Souls and imposing great challenges upon them so they relate to their handle, who is an undead warrior whose brain and memories are rotting away and who comes slightly closer to losing the final vestiges of his soul and giving up, becoming an empty shell, each time he dies and is reborn, or leaving the audience to wander a desolate place where their own actions can lead them to immediate destruction by any number of obscure or invisible threats in order to impress a feeling of tension and the need for extreme patience and care in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) to In Search of Lost Time (which uses its prohibitive length to put the audience in the position of the protagonist with his introspective and thoughtful attitude and the effects of the kind of psychological topics that he ponders on upon his own psyche), but as the former are far more well-known and often-consumed than the latter, it might ironically be more expedient to compare the latter to the former. The first volume, Swann's Way, deals primarily with the protagonist's melancholy recollection of a place and time where his attention was held by several beautiful and fascinating women, and secondarily with intrigue surrounding the wealthy Swann family. The true conceit of the story's title is also revealed; The protagonist had very few memories of this period in his life, but they were brought back to him by an experience that recalled a previous one and he was transported within his own mind to explore and reacquire the events of this time. In fact the impermanence and unreliability of memory is the most important running theme throughout the entire story, which can be seen as a philosophical or psychological treatise attached to a semi-autobiographical (and perhaps somewhat masturbatory) narrative. The second volu

The popular American version looks alright. It's nothing to write home about but it's chaste at the very least.

The thing is, there's a long history of Proust scholarship and academia in English speaking countries. The Modern Library translation is supposed to be decent. I don't know the status of the translation you're reading or if the translation culture is as rigorous in Spanish academia, either way the text is more important than the book jacket obviously though I admit the design for that edition is pretty neat.

woohoo

>tfw you realise proust is mouthbreather in white galoshes

How accessible is Proust's work? I'm interested, and don't mind the length, but if it's a 4,000 page slog, I'd rather not.
Also, translation recommendation? Would probably go with pic related, but if there's a better edition out there, say so.