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“#Proust […] is a sort of improbable Belle Époque Tolkien, the maker of a world with passports and maps and secret codes, to which many seek entry. […] The most musical pages of writing that exist in any language are those in the section of ‘Swann’s Way’ called ‘Place-Names: The Name’, devoted to the romance of the adolescent Marcel and Gilberte, the daughter of Swann and Odette.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/what-we-find-when-we-get-lost-in-proust

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What We Find When We Get Lost in Proust

Adam Gopnik on the new Proust story collection, “The Mysterious Correspondent”—and the alluring multiplicity of “In Search of Lost Time.”

The New Yorker
Nov 8, 2023 at 9:28amWeb
Show threadtripuNov 8, 2023
I actually don’t get the hyperbole about “the most musical pages […] in any language” (!). I’ve read “Swann’s Way” and the prose is beautiful, but not that beautiful.