/lit/ - Literature

>>10596218
the real loss was the friendships he could have made along the way.

>>10596254
Yeah I really wish he would have spent more time with the talking cat.

>>10596218
basically just Wheel of Time but in French lol

>>10596218
>when your waifu enjoys anal sex with somebody else

>he doesn't get the joke

>>10596218
so is this basically the endless eight of literature?

>>10596218
>caring about the plot

>>10596364
You have to care about the plot if you're summarizing Proust.

>>10596218
much like a never ending prank

>>10596364
Plot is undeniably essential for Proust

>>10598002
Proust's novel ostensibly tells of the irrevocability of time lost, the forfeiture of innocence through experience, the reinstallment of extra-temporal values of time regained, ultimately the novel is both optimistic and set within the context of a humane religious experience, re-stating as it does the concept of intemporality. In the first volume, Swann, the family friend visits...

>>10596218
I always thought this book had nothing to do with each other (characters wise). Are they actually one big story?

>>10596218
This is without a doubt the dumbest twist ending I've ever seen.
After two goddamn acts of them waiting for Godot he was already there the whole time!

>>10598041
these books*
jeee

>>10596218
the point is that the things you spent most of your life searching for are right there inside you all along, you fucking imbecile

>>10598041
Yes.
Albertine dies
M.’s grandmother dies
Robert Saint-Loup dies
Swann Dies
Mme Verdurin and Prince de Guermantes both their spouses die

Everything is connected and builds off each other starting from Vol1

>>10598057
No the joke is that he wasted a lot of time.

This is actually the point, and I can bet that people who have actually read the book agree with it, so I don't even bother reading it.

Am I justified /lit/?

>>10598075
The fact that he wasted a lot of time in his life is still included in what I said. He wasted a lot of time searching for something that was under his nose the entire time.

>>10596218
How long did it take you to read the whole thing OP?

>>10596218
thanks for that OP, now i can mark it "read" on my goodreads without having to bother with it

>>10596218
>it turns out I was Ulysses all along
Fucking seriously? Great book of the 20th century my ass.

>>10596354
Hip ref bro