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Why is this considered so good?

>> No.19094609

its not

>> No.19094613

>>19094604
The fact that you are asking this demonstrates that you’re a genuine retard who has zero taste for good literature. Stick to fantasy novels. I’ve read ISOLT thrice.

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why is extremely rich, moist chocolate cake that is so sweet it makes your mouth tingle considered good?

>> No.19094618

>>19094613
I haven't read it before so I was merely asking a question out of curiosity. Why are you being such a dick?

>> No.19094629

>>19094604
Everyone wants to read it. Nobody has read it. The people who have read it can't shut up about it. They say generic bullshit that proves they haven't understood it. Nobody calls them out on it because nobody has read it.

>> No.19094633

>>19094604
Learn french to find out why. You should be able to read it after a few years of study.

>> No.19094637

>>19094633
the english translation is commonly thought of as having improved the prose

>> No.19094663

>>19094629
Lmaooo at this cope

>> No.19094669

>>19094618
He's being a phallus because 4chan culture dictates it. It's a sad reality but you'll soon realize nothing worthwhile is said here. The only reason I still come here is occasionally something funny gets posted or a new meme like Waldun is born. In fact I created the Waldun meme. It's my one contribution to this board, which I loathe, the board that is.

But In Search of Lost Time is considered good because it's one of the few novels which captures the human condition so well. The novel is extremely relatable but in a very artistic manner. Not because you go "Oh the narrator is so me" but because Proust captures the human experience of memory so damn well and just life in general. It's a book which makes you appreciate life and its beauty.

>> No.19094678

>>19094616
you're a faggot

>> No.19094701

>>19094669
you’re a faggot

>> No.19094709

>>19094616
Let a lil white bou like me succ yo big nigga dicc
Captcha: GAGM3

>> No.19094714

>>19094669
>It's a sad reality but you'll soon realize nothing worthwhile is said here
not OP but I realized this years ago and I still come here, I don't know why. I guess "remember: you're here forever" isn't a meme

>> No.19094719

>>19094604
because... because it just is okay!!

>> No.19094723

>>19094669
Bro this is like a 10 year olds book report lmao

>> No.19094740

>>19094604
Essentially the book is about the rise of the frighteningly vulgar 'moneyed' nouveau riches (or bourgeoisie) at the expense of an anemic, distrait aristocracy that deserves to fall. Writing in the midst of this is Marcel, his early crushes, and his two disastrous love affairs. In the final book Proust ties all loose ends together and waxes philosophical about life, literature, art. It's a great series of books, if ultimately about coping, or how life inevitably let's one down.

>> No.19094781

It says "friendships and relationships are useless. They fade. Look to art for affirmation of life."

>> No.19094804

>>19094781
They not only 'fade,' anon. It turns out they were never what they seemed. Point accepted nonetheless

>> No.19095175

>>19094604
You have to be over 30 to get it. Better luck next decade.

>> No.19095421

>>19094604
I've only read Swanns so call be a pleb if you gotta but it's relatable shit. Like when his mother stays the night in his room, it's the most sour victory imaginable. Imagine having your greatest wish granted and not being able to enjoy it. It's not about having mommy issues, it's about that sour victory. There's many moments in the book like that.
>. Then, quite apart from all those literary preoccupations, and without definite attachment to anything, suddenly a roof, a gleam of sunlight reflected from a stone, the smell of a road would make me stop still, to enjoy the special pleasure that each of them gave me, and also because they appeared to be concealing, beneath what my eyes could see, something which they invited me to approach and seize from them, but which, despite all my efforts, I never managed to discover. As I felt that the mysterious object was to be found in them, I would stand there in front of them, motionless, gazing, breathing, endeavouring to penetrate with my mind beyond the thing seen or smelt.
Sure, it's really nice and pretty the way he describes the events and actions, and certainly the vividness helps sell the experience, but it's the way he crawls into someone like Swann's or the Narrators' head. or in this case how the narrator is taken out of his egoistical pondering and is just like "whoa, look at that pretty sunlight on that stone"

>> No.19096783

because reddit basedfags think quantity = quality

>> No.19096925

>>19096783
worthy bump/worthless b8

>> No.19096934

It's peak contemporary French language. Only Anatole France can rival it.

>> No.19096943

Many reasons, some of which are just pseudy nonsense. Personally I enjoyed it as a portrait of life at the time. There are few people who can eloquently go on and on about the magic of a telephone or a plan like Proust could

>> No.19096945

>>19094604
Is this literature?

>> No.19096955

>>19094604
Because the narrator is such a relatable retard

>> No.19097068

>>19094637
>the english translation is commonly thought of as having improved the prose
lel

>> No.19097101

I dont know dude, reading his letters to his grandpa about the money "incident" was enough Proust for me

>> No.19097131

>>19094714
Where else are you going to have such an easy time finding people who are self-evidently moronic losers to call moronic losers for 10 minutes a day before heading onto the grown up internet and doing useful things?
Nowhere, that's where. You fucking loser

>> No.19097139

>>19097101
>I dont know dude, reading his letters to his grandpa about the money "incident" was enough Proust for me
What do you mean? Don't you like him?

>> No.19097146

>>19097131
>grown up internet and doing useful things?
Here the talking is much better than there (sometimes).

>> No.19097178

>>19097139
No, on the contrary the letter made him endearing and I related to his retardedness. But I cannot take him seriously after reading it

>> No.19097217

>>19097178
>But I cannot take him seriously after reading it
C'mon, anon. Do you have to think the writers are perfect in order to read them?

>> No.19097260

>>19097178
Proust doesn't take his narrator-self seriously in the novel either.

>> No.19097270

>>19097260
I had to put the book down and take a break when he described how asparagus makes his chamberpot smell amazing all night.
Ridiculous brilliant retard genius

>> No.19097338

>>19097217
I guess you re right I should give his book a chance

>> No.19097997

>>19094604
because of the lesbians

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>>19097260
'Candor is the only wile'

>> No.19099839

>>19097101
>18 May 1888

>Thursday evening.

>My dear little grandfather,

>I appeal to your kindness for the sum of 13 francs that I wished to ask Mr. Nathan for, but which Mama prefers I request from you. Here is why. I so need to see if a woman could stop my awful masturbation habit that Papa gave me 10 francs to go to a brothel. But first, in my agitation, I broke a chamber pot: 3 francs; then, still agitated, I was unable to screw.

>So here I am, back to square one, waiting more and more as hours pass for 10 francs to relieve myself, plus 3 francs for the pot. But I dare not ask Papa for more money so soon and so I hoped you could come to my aid in a circumstance which, as you know, is not merely exceptional but also unique. It cannot happen twice in one lifetime that a person is too flustered to screw.

>I kiss you thousand times and dare to thank you in advance.

>I will be home tomorrow morning at 11 am. If you are moved by my situation and can answer my prayers, I hope I will see you with the money needed. Regardless, thank you for your decision which I know that derives from a warm, friendly place.

kek, what's wrong with it?

>> No.19100209

>>19094637
Lmao
Your language is shit you anglo retard

>> No.19100235

>>19100209
Lmao fuck off Frog

>> No.19100254

>>19100235
I prefer frogx

>> No.19100608

This is going to sound cheesy but I read the entire work in one go and it was akin to the most spiritual experience I have ever had.

>> No.19100621

>>19094678
You’re a tranny

>> No.19100635

>>19094701
You're a towel!

>> No.19100648

>>19094613
you've read it three times but cant even express yourself at all about it? brainlet alert

>> No.19100652

>>19094604
Because it is well-written. The sentences are rich and full of interesting images, insights, and the prose has a fine, sinuous melody to it (if you read the original).
It is not the most charged kind of prose, which is why authors like Joyce are better, but it is very good still, probably better or as good as Flaubert.

>> No.19100660

>>19094740
>Essentially the book is about the rise of the frighteningly vulgar 'moneyed' nouveau riches

Stop reading for the story, imbecile.

>> No.19100676

>>19100652
Joyce and Proust set out to do very different things. They are no comparable.

>> No.19101590

>>19100660
Kek. 2/10 b8.

>> No.19101626

>>19094604
Zero idea, seems horrific though from what I’ve read. The responses itt haven’t done much to convince me otherwise. Read Thackeray

>>19100652
It’s not as a Good as Flaubert from the Little I’ve read. Do I really have to deep dive this bad boy because of this off hand comment

>> No.19101635

>>19101626
You’re retarded. Kill yourself, pleb.

>> No.19102668

>>19094613
>thrice

>> No.19102725

>>19100660
y tho

>> No.19102758

>>19102725
Anon, he reveals nothing (will not risk exposing himself) but nonetheless hopes for a /you/ in the form of one maybe two paragraphs. He's not worth questioning (or answering); that anon has nothing but an archaic /lit/ meme

>> No.19103399

>>19102725
Because the story is only the framework for how the story is told, the artistry of telling it.

>> No.19103621

>>19094604
Technical prowess, conversational finesse

>> No.19104077

>>19094669
Appreciate the genuine post on here for once

>> No.19104089

>>19101635
Nice refutation

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>>19094616
That cake looks real good.

>> No.19105248

>>19104089
Cry more, bitchboy

>> No.19105311

>>19097131
Where is the grown up internet supposed to be?
Self-righteous shithead

>> No.19107068

>>19094669
Congratulations! You passed elementary school

>> No.19107072

>>19094604
Cause it’s good

>> No.19107076

>>19094629
>nobody has read it
Get off my board

>> No.19108564

>>19096943

Or seeing an airplane for the first time.. Truly a great book.

>> No.19108585

>>19105248
>Proust good!
>Human Condition!!!!!
>WEEE WOOOOOOO IM A FIRE TRUCK AND LOVE PROUST WEEEEE WOOOOOOOO

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>>19094616
Good question anon. Why?

>> No.19109974

>>19094604
Because it perfectly encapsulates an entire period of history and emotion in an epic timeless manner. With that being said, I prefer Balzac and Stendhal

>> No.19110086

>>19094604
>Why is this considered so good?
Because I like it.

>> No.19110094

>>19094604
Because it is. I'm reading the captive right now and it's great. Don't listen to the filtered idiots in this thread.

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>>19094669
>the human condition
>the human experience
>life in general
pseud

>> No.19110124

I remember reading a description of the sea in i think the second book, just a random paragraph with no anticipation or nothing building up to it, and being so overwhelmed that I thought I had never read something being described before. It has moments of otherworldly beauty, and to be fair also hundreds of very uneventful pages.

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>>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.

>> No.19111041

>>19094723
>>19107068
>>19110108
Why bother coming on this board and viewing these threads if you have nothing valuable to add to any conversation? This is a genuine question im not just trying to be provocative.

>> No.19111250

You need to be French to read French littérature.