Reminiscing About Lost Time: on the Swann Side (volume 1)
About This Novel
Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" is recognized as a new attempt in literary creation and the first of mainstream novels. The novel reviews the past in the form of memories, including childhood memories, family life, first love and lost love, observations of historical events, insights into art, understanding of time and space, etc. Time is the protagonist of this novel. The author uses wisdom and imagination to make time concrete, vivid and perfect. It is like a symphony composed of multiple themes, such as love, jealousy, death, memory, and time, sometimes overlapping and sometimes drifting apart. However, on a macro level, the entire work is integrated and has vigorous vitality.
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Official(16)Scraped 21d ago
The world is not one world, it has thousands of worlds. How many pairs of eyes open every morning, and how many consciousnesses wake up, then there are as many worlds. Everyone's world exists independently, because of encounters, acquaintances, love, or hate, in the time of love and the intertwining of hate, there is a moment of blending and sharing.
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It took me a long time to finish it. The author's psychological portrayal has reached the point of perfection. The author looks at his grandparents, maternal grandparents, great-aunts and great-aunts from the perspective of a child. From the interpersonal interactions of those characters, one or two characters with distinctive personalities are identified: the bedridden aunt adjusted her body in a way she thought was appropriate, reduced the time for interacting with others and visiting others, and remained self-contained. She only relied on observation by the window to guess and comment on what happened. Her servant Françoise was a loyal servant to Aunt Léonie. While enduring the master's random speculations and false accusations against her, she still carefully served the seriously ill master. However, she was not so polite to her companions and asked her pregnant colleagues to do some work that was not good for their health to ensure that her job was non-competitive and her status was stable. The author writes about the cautious and uneasy mentality. As for Mr. Swann's love, its melancholy and tortuous state shows the pain of not getting what you want and the inhuman torture of loving one. As for the author himself, my love in the article is not as tangled as Mr. Swann's. Although this article is quite long, it is worth reading if you put your mind to it.
I heard it from my Chinese teacher. It's a classic of stream of consciousness novels. It's really great.
stream of consciousness
Mainly I want to read novels written by several famous stream-of-consciousness writers, including Virginia Woolf and Proust.
I wanted to read a book since I was in eighth grade, but I kept putting it off until my second year of high school. Sigh... This book is really good.
Good,,,,,
good
Who is singing, warming the loneliness
The youth that flies past.
I've seen it before, but I need to see it again
Recommended to the target. We can feel the translator's enthusiasm. The preface is equivalent to giving us an illustration of thousands of doors and the key to the right door. Time is the most important theme! I hope you can have a good reading time [Excerpt 1] "Just like space has geometry, time has psychology." Human beings have been fighting against time throughout their lives. They originally wanted to be persistently attached to a lover, a friend, or certain beliefs; forgetfulness slowly rose from the dark, drowning their most beautiful and precious memories. [Excerpt 2] In the last few years of his life, Marcel could hear somewhere in his body "the clear iron ringing of little bells ringing from time to time, endlessly and noisily". In his childhood, every time the bell rang, it always announced Swann's visit. It must have been the bell that never stopped tinkling on him. So time seems to disappear completely, but it is not, it is becoming one with ourselves. From this arose the idea that is at the root of Proust's work, the pursuit of time that seems to have been lost but is actually still there, ready to be reborn.
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Official(16)Scraped 21d ago
The world is not one world, it has thousands of worlds. How many pairs of eyes open every morning, and how many consciousnesses wake up, then there are as many worlds. Everyone's world exists independently, because of encounters, acquaintances, love, or hate, in the time of love and the intertwining of hate, there is a moment of blending and sharing.
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It took me a long time to finish it. The author's psychological portrayal has reached the point of perfection. The author looks at his grandparents, maternal grandparents, great-aunts and great-aunts from the perspective of a child. From the interpersonal interactions of those characters, one or two characters with distinctive personalities are identified: the bedridden aunt adjusted her body in a way she thought was appropriate, reduced the time for interacting with others and visiting others, and remained self-contained. She only relied on observation by the window to guess and comment on what happened. Her servant Françoise was a loyal servant to Aunt Léonie. While enduring the master's random speculations and false accusations against her, she still carefully served the seriously ill master. However, she was not so polite to her companions and asked her pregnant colleagues to do some work that was not good for their health to ensure that her job was non-competitive and her status was stable. The author writes about the cautious and uneasy mentality. As for Mr. Swann's love, its melancholy and tortuous state shows the pain of not getting what you want and the inhuman torture of loving one. As for the author himself, my love in the article is not as tangled as Mr. Swann's. Although this article is quite long, it is worth reading if you put your mind to it.
I heard it from my Chinese teacher. It's a classic of stream of consciousness novels. It's really great.
stream of consciousness
Mainly I want to read novels written by several famous stream-of-consciousness writers, including Virginia Woolf and Proust.
I wanted to read a book since I was in eighth grade, but I kept putting it off until my second year of high school. Sigh... This book is really good.
Good,,,,,
good
Who is singing, warming the loneliness
The youth that flies past.
I've seen it before, but I need to see it again
Recommended to the target. We can feel the translator's enthusiasm. The preface is equivalent to giving us an illustration of thousands of doors and the key to the right door. Time is the most important theme! I hope you can have a good reading time [Excerpt 1] "Just like space has geometry, time has psychology." Human beings have been fighting against time throughout their lives. They originally wanted to be persistently attached to a lover, a friend, or certain beliefs; forgetfulness slowly rose from the dark, drowning their most beautiful and precious memories. [Excerpt 2] In the last few years of his life, Marcel could hear somewhere in his body "the clear iron ringing of little bells ringing from time to time, endlessly and noisily". In his childhood, every time the bell rang, it always announced Swann's visit. It must have been the bell that never stopped tinkling on him. So time seems to disappear completely, but it is not, it is becoming one with ourselves. From this arose the idea that is at the root of Proust's work, the pursuit of time that seems to have been lost but is actually still there, ready to be reborn.
