Why (re-)read Proust?
Translated from French.
Why (re-)read Proust? 🤓📚
🖋️ “What the reader seeking to return to Proust after twenty years is looking for may well be something other than what they first encountered. If they open “La Chartreuse” once more, it is to rediscover a kind of state of grace. If they reread the Search, it is above all to test Proust – and some aspect that had not seemed quite so important the first time round, comedy, for example, will stand out as self-evident – but it is soon to examine themselves, to compare who they have become with the young man they once were. 🕵🏻♂️🔎
(…) We then come to believe we no longer have time to read: and the truth is, we no longer feel like it. As we make fewer friends, we also read fewer books. But the memory of them lingers, like a pang of remorse mingled with a secret pleasure. Rereading Proust is no doubt the ever-postponed wish of many men who, without realising it, are thus evoking their youth 👨🏻🕰️👦🏻, and for whom these two words merge with the regret for a fuller, more intense life, unconcerned with material or professional worries, and in which the mind’s boundless curiosity and the desire to explore their feelings consumed them entirely. They may sacrifice that desire every day to more urgent and less important tasks, yet the desire remains, bearing witness to the value that life has retained for them.” ❤️🩹
— Bernard de Fallois,
“Seven lectures on Marcel Proust”,
Published by de Fallois, 2019 and @editions_pocket
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