Mon Dieu! Someone has read all 7 volumes. And, poor me, still thinking there were only six. As to my progress.......summer trips and a day job have kept me from getting past Swann's Way, and in fact, I'm just now leaving Combray to find out about Swann in love.
As a supplement, take a look at this week's New Yorker with a piece by Alex Ross about fictional composers. He talks about Vinteuil and Swann. Allright........back to it.
One observation before I close. The Stonington enthusiast had mentioned she liked the descriptions in the first volume about the spires and steeples and, interestingly, when I returned to the first volume I had independently underlined those portions also.
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We are a group of friends who have decided to read through Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." We have all wanted to read Proust for years but have never been able to tackle it, so we thought if we all did it together and wrote about our impressions and experiences we might get through it. We are using the Modern Library six-volume set (ISBN 0812969642).
Keep it up! There are woefully few female readers of Proust--my theory is that men are typically more competitive and therefore more pedantic than women by nature and are inclined to read the book to obtain bragging rights. I read the book 10 years ago because a boy intimated that I couldn't be intelligent unless I had read it (a truly silly reason to read a book)... and I am reading it again now. I am commenting here because I think it is so groovy that you are all reading the book together. Kudos to you all!
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