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Better than Ulysses

>> No.12833474

>>12833470
Really or trolling? Currently reading Ulysses so maybe I'll check this out after

>> No.12833485

Currently reading vol 1. God damn this book is amazing.

>> No.12833487

>>12833470
thought this was /po/ for a sec lol

>> No.12833489

>>12833470
Not really all that similar tbqh

>> No.12834911

I've literally gogled this book when i wake up today because i saw it mentioned in a book i was reading couple of days ago.

>4k pages

>> No.12834931

>>12833470
>>12833485
patrician taste on my /lit/
proud of you, guys

>> No.12834939

>>12834931
>>12833485

First book is great but the second and third are magnitudes better but the first book has a lot of memorable scenes in it.

>> No.12835217

>>12834939
I wouldn't go that far. Swann in Love is one of the strongest parts of the entire series.

>> No.12835592

>>12833470
I agree although they are pretty different

>> No.12835673

>>12833470
What are the main virtues of Proust, guys? What makes him a "great"? Every artist in the canon has their own unique addition to it - what's Proust's?

>> No.12835682

>>12833470
trash book that 0 people enjoyed

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12835921

Better than Ulysses

>> No.12835943

>>12835682
>He didn’t find Swann in love moving
Stick to YA

>> No.12836367

I've never dated and the relationships in volume 1 and 2 are making me never want to date.

>> No.12836771

Is Proust difficult or just long?

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>>12836771
I'm also interested in people's opinions on this

>> No.12837243

>>12833470
>>12833474
I don't know if it's better than Ulysses. Certainly not worse. Both have a strong impact on the mind: Ulysses somewhat more optimistic in our everyday thought, but then again i'm only halfway through ISoLT and I've read Ulysses three times.

>>12834939
>>12835217
Indeed, I'm only on the fourth book but the way jealousy is dealt with extendedly in that first volume makes it immortal.

>>12835673
He's if Schopenhauer wrote a novel. Sure, it takes seven volumes to do so, but even in the first couple of volumes (nvm, first volume) he'll hit you once a page with a philosophical insight while in-between giving you poetry through prose. If you've lived, loved, had parents, known a variety of at least twenty people, been in some way a part of SOCIETY, then you will love Proust.

>>12836771
>>12837185
Not difficult. If you haven't read too much then it will definitely be difficult. In terms of difficulty, off my head: Late Joyce>Milton>>Dante>>Shakespeare>>>Proust. If you've stuck through Kant, Nietzsche, or God forbid Hegel, then Proust will flow so well that you'll read hundreds of pages a day.