#Proust2023 entering the home stretch: volume 4, Sodom and Gomorrah this month.

Lots of dodgy gay politics:

By dint of having tender thoughts about men, we become a woman and a false skirt impedes our steps.

Highlights of The Guermantes Way (Volume 3 of) #Proust2023.

Marcel on art:

his playing is that of so great a pianist that you forget completely that the performer is a pianist

Nova Hellas: Stories from Future Greece—ed. Francesca T Barbini and Francesco Verso tr. Dimitra Nikolaidou et al.
Ein simpler Eingriff—#YaelInokai
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower—#MarcelProust #Proust2023 tr. #JamesGrieve

Thoughts on volume 2 of Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: #Proust2023

Getting Lost—#AnnieErnaux tr. #AlisonLStrayer
Numa Roumestan—#AlphonseDaudet tr. Charles de Kay
Simultan—#IngeborgBachmann
In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—#ChristopheBlain tr. #ElizabethBell
The Way by Swann's—#MarcelProust tr. #LydiaDavis #Proust2023

January reading: nine books, mostly French-style!

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Getting Lost—#AnnieErnaux tr. #AlisonLStrayer
Numa Roumestan—#AlphonseDaudet tr. Charles de Kay
Simultan—#IngeborgBachmann
In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—#ChristopheBlain tr. #ElizabethBell
The Way by Swann's—#MarcelProust tr. #LydiaDavis #Proust2023

Highlights of the second and final parts of The Way by Swann's -- #Proust2023

A lot of the second part was hard to read because of the awfulness of the Verdurins; it was a welcome relief when Swann was exiled!

More perceptive psychology:

At an earlier time one dreamed of possessing the heart of the woman with whom one was in love; later, to feel that one possesses a woman’s heart may be enough to make one fall in love with her.

#Proust2023 Half-way point in reading The Way by Swann's; some highlights so far.

I'm reading the Lydia Davis translation in the Prendergast series, and I've just realised that this is the same Lydia Davis who writes the amazing, tiny stories I've been reading as a break from Proust.

Also a surprise: Swann has a mullet ("a new hairstyle which consisted of wearing the hair in a crew-cut in front and longer in the back." in Davis' note.)

The grocer in Combray is called Camus.