Swann's Way by Marcel Proust | BOOK REVIEW
Here are my immediate thoughts on Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, which I finished reading yesterday. I can see the brilliance of Proust, but have decided to save the rest of ISOLT for when I am much older. I'd advise you to consider doing the same for my thoughts in this video.
I like to take a biographical approach to my book reviews. Here I mention how it fits with Modernism and his contemporaries, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. This is the great thing about reading classic fiction and literary fiction, in that it has a cultural place that we can now see and question with the advantage of hindsight.
In Search of Lost Time is definitely a literary ideal for descriptive writing, getting at a core part of life — how and why do we remember the things we do? What is love, and how is it formed? Can we relive experiences through memory, dreams, or imagination?
(00:00): Introduction
(00:59): Plot Synopsis
(02:24): Plot Structure
(02:39): My Favourite Excerpts
(05:09): Proust, Woolf & Joyce
(06:16): Virginia Woolf's review
(07:06): My Experience
(09:16): Proust's Techniques
(11:04): Rating & Criticisms
(14:14): Conclusion
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= Dislike (not recommended) ("failed")
** = Okay (recommended to select audience) ("flawed")
*** = Like (recommended to general audience) ("fine")
**** = Really like (strongly recommended to select audience) ("focused")
***** = Love (strongly recommended to general audience) ("fervent")
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