/lit/ - Literature

well, it beats taking a lecture on 19th century art and culture...

I've read parts of it. It seems to be pretty awesome and helped get me laid once.

relevant to my interests

>>1332205
Cool. I get laid mainly because of my own good looks but that's great

Op, i've read the first four volumes. i finished the guermantes way and sodom and gomorrah in 2 months, reading them back to back, and that was like a shuddering delight.
I have the last 3 in one large volume and am waiting to approach it.
The series is very, very good so far. But people are right to say Proust's as obscure as Joyce. You'll certainly feel like you're putting in an amount of effort on par with Joyce to get through the text in some ways, although in ways that will surprise you, and as with Joyce always lead you to something pleasurable in the end.
Swann's Way is fantastic so anyone reading this should just start it at any point. There's no need to rush the series or read it all at once IMO, unless you're in the hospital for 6 weeks. Also, within SW is the almost-novella "Swann in Love." (Sometimes sold as a novella in France). It's really mindblowing /lit/

>>1332422
Fucking a.

You just convinced me to read Swann's way this winter break. Have you seen the film Time Regained? Pretty damn good.

Here, have some Robert de Montesquiou.

Proust > Joyce

>>1333125

Proust > Joyce>CELINE!!!!!!!!!

Any good books/websites/guides for reading Proust?

Genet>Proust

>>1333834
drug addicted faggot detected

>>1333827
it's not hard, you just gotta read large chunks at a time.

>>1333848
Bisexual actually :) at least I'm no neurotic closet fag like Proost

>>1333857
Closet?

Different volumes seemed to have had different names at different times here in the UK - I read one when I was a kid called Within A Budding Grove (I think) VolI ,I think. I remember loving it: never read anything like it before. I still think about it regularly - it's that kind of book.

Anyway, a year or so later my little brother happened to ask me if I'd read them. I said "Yeah, course, read ALL of them and they were ALL fucking amazing". So he dedicated the next year to reading all of them, came back and I told him I was a lying rat. After he finished crying he said it had probably been worth it in the end. He said the irony was that one of the later volumes had a really gripping plot and was a real page turner -you just have to get through the initial five volumes of him deciding whether or not he's going to go to the theatre that night.

Last year I told him I read all of Balzac's La Comédie Humaine so it's business as usual here.

Under the Volcano, for me, seems to be part of Proust's beautiful legacy, and that's probably my favourite novel so Go Marcel etc.

GUYS

Question.

Why is it that wiki says there is 7 volumes to this work but I usually only see there being 6 books?

>>1333941
are six and seven combined in some editions?

>>1333956
Honestly, I don't know. I'm trying to make sense of it. OP's pic shows 6 volumes, but I've heard of there being 7, and wiki states there are. I can only find 6 volumes on amazon, as well.

Anyone know why?

>>1333965
^_^

>>1333965
I don't think he finished it. He worked on the series all his life and edited the books throughout. Perhaps that 7th is incomplete and included with the 6th volume.

>>1334084
I guess it makes sense.

I've owned the grey three-volume set for 6-7 years. It's on the bucket list.

>>1332182
for prose. for plot, it's worth shit

>>1333965
If you look closely, you can see the titles. The Fugitive and Time Regained are on volume 6.

>>1334166
The motherfucker is right!

..so does he ever find the time he's looking for?

>>1335110
actually, the title is a joke... a joke on the reader.

because you sure want your time back when you are finished.

What's the best english translation to get? Going to buy this series soon. Any recommendations?

Read it in french.
For the same reasons I wouldn't read Joyce in french (or any other translation).

There's a reason why they say that Proust is the Joyce of french litterature and vice versa.

... but yeah, you should read it nonetheless.
/À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs/ is really good - but I still feel that I am too young or too unexperienced to be able to fully enjoy it. I'm 23.

>>1333125
Andrea Bely > Proust > Joyce

>>1335121
Andrei Bely*

>>1335118
I read the C. K. Scott-Moncrieff and enjoyed it.. Seemed to be approachable, without being overtly newfangly and 'lets make this relevant to the kids today yeah!'

>>1335124
You only know who that is because Nabokov mentioned him once

Are the Penguin or Modern Library translations any good?

>>1335138
Penguin never really go wrong with their translations. You may find better translations out there, but you can't go wrong.

>>1335142
That's basically what I was thinking. Checking up on Modern Library and the reception of their translation, just in case. Thanks.