#thegreatestbooks — Public Fediverse posts
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Volume III of #Proust’s “In Search Of Lost Time” feels like lost time indeed. I’m barely one fifth through it and I can’t see the end. It feels like I’ve been plunged into it for a very long year. Directions of use for some medicines are more thrilling than this.
…so far.
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I just finished reading the first volume of the #Essays by #MichelDeMontaigne, arguably the most important non-fiction work in all of world #literature.
Here are all my highlights (in 🇪🇸 #Spanish):
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A recent article on #Quillette on #TheGreatestBooks, #books, #literature (and #audiobooks):
https://quillette.com/2021/07/28/listening-to-literature-what-we-gain-and-lose-with-audiobooks/
I felt identified with so much, that here go eight direct #quotes that I make my own, where I made just a few edits (between square brackets):
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I thought the language of #Proust's “Swann's Way” was affected, dense, convoluted. Then I started reading the second part of #InSearchOfLostTime, “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”. Man, the twenty-line-long sentences containing several subordinate clauses, some of them eight lines long! Why? Why!?
📚 #French #literature #book #TheGreatestBooks