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What am I in for?

>> No.14072674

A transfiguration of your perspective.

>> No.14072722

>>14072650
I'm currently learning french so hopefully one day ill tackle this when i am proficient enough, good luck i hear its one of the best translated works of french

>> No.14072732

>>14072650
according to my mom, a white guy who bitches about his non-issues. she also claims that odette's portrayal is not empowering enough for women and that she doesn't have agency.

>> No.14073506

>>14072732
kill your mom

>> No.14073524

A journey through the doors of memory and some of the best prose.

>> No.14073561

like anything that's beautiful, it forces your admiration and the difficulty of getting through its serpentine sentences makes the reward even better.

>> No.14074134

>>14072650
Cosy times staying in bed all morning with only your regrets for company

>> No.14074403

>>14072732
kek, based mommy

>> No.14075045

What's the recommended version/translation? I don't know French, maybe some day

>> No.14075091

>>14072732
You need to find a new mom.

>> No.14075099

>>14075045
The one in the pic.

>> No.14075121

The rambling life story of a bitchy old queen with mommy issues.

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14075147

>>14072732
Woh. Neat mom.
What are her favorite books/authors?

>> No.14075225

>>14075147
Mehis Heinsaar
Kundera

>> No.14075312

>>14072732
Oh no, a white guy in C19th France? How awful.

THIS is why this board has to have more /pol/ posts.

Claiming white people are in ANY way intrinsically bad is as Jewish as killing children to drink their blood for Purim and celebrating 9/11

>> No.14075328

>>14075225
God all my mom reads is nicholas sparks john green and jk rowling. Wish she would read something less normie.

>> No.14075382

>>14075328
That anons mom is a brainless pseud anon. Proust is read for the groundbreaking narrative effects which don't translate into English. At least your mom is authentic

>> No.14075391

>>14075382
>don't translate into English
French speaker here, the Moncreiff edition is practically as good as the original, without a doubt its possibly one of the best translations ever written. Some say Moncreiff's additions nearly make it better.

>> No.14075416

>>14075312
>>14075382
lol are you guys seriously offended because somebody's mom doesn't like proust? is that all it takes to rile you guys up?

>>14075391
really? that's pretty strange to think about. how hard is Proust to read in the original anyways?

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14075484

Is there a more based character than the Baron de Charlus in all of French literature? Truly he makes bourgeois flamboyant homosexuals seem like an aesthetic

Also where are my Bloch-chads/Blochads at?

>> No.14075517

>>14075416
Not offended. Just explaining how she's a thick anti white pseud.

>>14075391
And yet Proust makes revolutionary use of a verb form which English lacks.

Perhaps you missed that....

>practically as good as the original

opinion discarded

>> No.14075522

>>14075416
>is that all it takes to rile you guys up?
This is /lit/. What did you expect? We are the vanguard of the Canon now that Bloom has passed away.
>I still miss him :(

>> No.14075557

How does the Kilmartin revision of the Moncreiff translation hold up to the Moncreiff translation itself?