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holy fucking shit!!! this is the best thing I've ever read.

>> No.20729538

>French
>Jew
Yikes. No thanks.

>> No.20729552

>>20729538
fuck off.

>> No.20729565

>>20729538
Atheist raised catholic who never acknowledged himself as jewish and was on the side of the anti-semites during the Dreyfus affair

>> No.20729569

>>20729565
b-b-but he was a fag...

>> No.20729571

why

>> No.20729573

Absolutely amazing.

>> No.20729591

>>20729571
It's impossible to explain. It's the pleasure of complete immersion into someone else's life through the most richly imagined prose I could ever dream of. The book's not even 'about' anything. It's just the minutiae of everyday life in full colour. It's the closest one can get to the simulation of being another person in my eyes.

>> No.20730000

bump

>> No.20730034

>>20729565
>was on the side of the anti-semites during the Dreyfus affair
I'm pretty sure Proust was proDreyfus; he just hated Zola.

>> No.20730055

>>20730034
why?

>> No.20730061

>>20729535
Ironic cover

>> No.20730069

Swann's way is the easiest volume of In search of lost time. The second volume, though, is much harder to read, but you must insist. It's worth to reach the end of the series.

>> No.20730089

>>20730069
have you read the entire thing?

>> No.20730131

>>20729538
Go back to /pol/.

>> No.20730134

>>20730089
Yes, three times.

>> No.20730156

>>20730055
>not thinking Zola's a dick
He's a lawyer who wrote romance novels with a fedora eugenics tilt. Nobody wants to sit next to that on a streetcar.

>> No.20730160

>>20730034
>he just hated Zola
did he really? he was a staunch dreyfus supporter

>> No.20730172

>>20730160
Iirc he punched Zola for saying Daudet was the best living French writer.

>> No.20730192

>>20730134
wow. should i re-read swann's way prior to the second?