Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:15 am
Very helpful, thanks. I think I'll get my hands on it again once I've got through my current reading!
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MorkTheFiddle » Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:15 am
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Voyage au bout de la Nuit proved to have too many unknown words for me to follow, so I switched to Le Temps Retrouvé by Proust. The reader Pomme narrates a LitteratureAudio version, whose text comes from the 1927 Gallimard edition. I mention this only because more than one version exists. I have an Audible reading by Daniel Mesguich from a different version, but don't know the edition he reads from. I read pages 7-39, which goes for 1:17:30 hours.
Thanks for the reference. It is needed, for sure. Virginia Woolf compared reading Proust (and Madame de Sévigné) to walking through a large forest with many paths. As you walked down the paths, you often unexpectedly ran into someone you knew from a while back on another path. The same happens in another long novel I am reading in French translation, The Tale of Genji. There is a pleasure in this, but I had read other parts of Proust so long ago--well, 5 or 6 years--that I forgot who some of the characters are. So, proust-personnages is just what the doctor ordered.kanewai wrote:If you keep on with Proust, the website Proust, ses personnages will help immensely. It lists every character and where they appear in the books, and ... even better ... lets you scroll through their appearances in order so that you don't encounter any rude spoilers. Part of the pleasure of the books is how we meet characters at various points in their lives, and there are far too many characters to remember them all.