/lit/ - Literature

>>19094604
I saw some anon list Proust amongst his favourite philosophers and i think hes pretty much right about that. You can see the book as a long form philosophical reflection on the structure of the self told through a lush description emotions; beauty, anxiety, love, etc.
despite it seeming like a messy collections of ramblings its formally very precisely put together, a passage is always at a certain place for a reason, to develop or highlight some aspect. Yet this intricate formal structure is not all there is to it, you can read it without analysis and you will still have a good time, its descriptions and memories and sentences are just very beautifully put together. Its something you read and that kinda sticks with you, small descriptions or slivers of memories that start to infect the way you look at things as well.