Such a long but entrancing journey ... eight months later, I've happily met the #InSearchofLostTime reading challenge. #Proust #MarcelProust #TranslatedLiterature

@bookgaga

Congratulations, raising my virtual glass in your direction! I do so across continents, and across time as well ..., since my own reading of the book was many decades ago, as a young student. I have re-read selected parts from individual volumes, but never found the right mental frame to do the full second round. Perhaps this year!

It will be strange: revisiting the text and experiencing its circular nature, and at the same time facing the "having passed" of much of my own lifetime. Bits that the young Roamer read as an advance notice, the current Roamer may recognise from his own life, or he'll realise he misunderstood them all those years ago, or he may think them wrong. (Master Marcel won't mind.) I will give it a go this year.

#MarcelProust #somanycirclesfeedingintoeachotheritmakesyoudizzy

@the_roamer Your experience and observations about this work are fascinating. You're so right about its circular nature, and how that maps to the protagonist's life, to Proust's own life (his mortality hangs over the entire work, doesn't it?) ... and how it maps to our own reflections on our own lives. Fresh off my first journey through it, I know I'm not ready yet to do it again (other books beckon, not surprisingly) ... but I know I will revisit at least some of it again.