The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.
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Worthwhile, but be prepared...,
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This review is from: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 3: The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained (Paperback)
I set myself the challenge of reading this monumental work, and am still in the process of slogging through Volume 3, which I hope to finish sometime before death.The book has moments of transcendant beauty and insight that have made it worthwhile, but also some deeply tedious sections that seem to drag on endlessly. My main problem has been the exasperation I feel with Proust himself. It is frankly difficult at times for modern readers to identify with this supremely self-involved aesthete of the early 20th century. Often I just want to reach out and smack him and tell him to quit whining and obsessing and get on with his life, already. Currently, I am dealing with his jealousy and need to control Albertine and her lesbianism, when I have to restrain myself from screaming "Go ahead and break up with her, you dolt!" The minute details of his emotional life spread out over 3,000 plus pages are sometimes overwhelming. On the other hand, I have to admit that he is ruthlessly honest and makes no attempt to render himself in a glowing light, which is admirable. And there are occasionally those deeply profound insights into human nature that strike a chord in everyone, along with a valuable documentation of a time and a life so unlike my own and fascinating in its own way. Take the challenge, and good luck!
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Grokkable,
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This review is from: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 3: The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained (Paperback)
Reading Marcel Proust books like : The Past Regained , has been a delicious experience . i especially like the sense in his novels of space and time as being deepened [in terms of their potential for a type of resonance ] by the act of contemplation : where things are contemplated according to a sequence of precise manuevers within and outside of the mind . This is a theme the theologian Paul Tillich also touches upon in his writings . Thomas Wolfe , perhaps , was mistaken when he said : you can't go home again . Marcel Proust teaches us that it is possible to go home again . If we are willing to dwell on the past and contemplate without conflating or distorting each of the distinct nuances of past experiences , we can have the experience of cosmically going home again . [We must in this process avoid the mental laziness of the pop psychology that tells us "don't dwell on it' , "don't cling" to the interesting experiences of the past . ] Do dwell on it should be the message .
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Not a Waste at all !,
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This review is from: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 3: The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained (Paperback)
Think of the series of books as a diary. It's all about his perception of things. Kind of like the ARTHUR INMAN DIARY, but not written by a huge bigot (like Arthur Inman). And Proust doesn't kill himself in the end. Mike
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AT daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what tone the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mme Verdurin, Mme de Guermantes, Mlle Vinteuil, Duchesse de Guermantes, Mme Bontemps, Mme de Villeparisis, Princesse de Guermantes, Duc de Guermantes, Prince de Guermantes, Mme de Forcheville, Mme Swann, Mme de Cambremer, Mme Sazerat, Mme de Marsantes, Queen of Naples, Mme de Saint-Euverte, Mme de Saint-Loup, Faubourg Saint-Germain, Mme Molé, Princesse de Parme, Mademoiselle Albertine, Mlle Albertine, Mlle de Forcheville, Mlle Swann, Mme de Mortemart New!
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AT daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what tone the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mme Verdurin, Mme de Guermantes, Mlle Vinteuil, Duchesse de Guermantes, Mme Bontemps, Mme de Villeparisis, Princesse de Guermantes, Duc de Guermantes, Prince de Guermantes, Mme de Forcheville, Mme Swann, Mme de Cambremer, Mme Sazerat, Mme de Marsantes, Queen of Naples, Mme de Saint-Euverte, Mme de Saint-Loup, Faubourg Saint-Germain, Mme Molé, Princesse de Parme, Mademoiselle Albertine, Mlle Albertine, Mlle de Forcheville, Mlle Swann, Mme de Mortemart New!
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- Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy on page 383
- Les Contemplations by Victor Hugo in Back Matter
- The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust in Front Matter
- Bible of Humanity by Jules Michelet on page 157
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- Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Basis for Sharing the Earth (Contributions in Philosophy) by Haim Gordon on 9 pages
- The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam by James Tatum on 4 pages
- The Twentieth-Century World of Henry James: Changes in His Work After 1900 by Adeline R. Tintner on 4 pages
- The Death and Resurrection of the Author?: (Contributions in Philosophy) by William Irwin on page 104, page 111, and page 114
- Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein on page 17, page 159, and Back Matter
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