Skye is reading ... Proust's In Search Of Lost Time ... all three volumes and 3000+ pages!!! Really!!! She means it this time!!! No excuses. Six weeks and counting. Next up Thomas Mann's dratted Magic Mountain.
Thus far, the first 30 pages (1%) are lovely. A joy, truly, to reminiscence about "Mama," bedtime, and the world's most famous madeline. But also a revelation of archaic French verb conjugations and a reminder why Skye has chosen to read this tome, blessedly, in translation. Camus in French? Absolument. But Proust? Merci, mais non. C'est un travail presque impossible!
Which translation are you reading? I am reading the Moncrief and Kilmartin. Currently bogged down on page 176 of Guermantes Way.
ReplyDeleteMagic Mountain made me discover my capacity for narolepsy.