Marcel Proust, according to Evelyn Waugh (1948)

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Marcel Proust: Maestro Nonpareil of Full-Body Listening

from: in pursuit of silence

Remembrance of Things Past is, of course, a virtuoso performance in sensory attentiveness throughout; but there are certain thought experiments Proust conducts, building on particular instances of perceptual intensity, that are so remarkable, it's worth revisting them even out of their proper, inexhaustibly lush context. ...

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PROUST IS DAMN FUNNY

Adelle Waldman reads Proust in the park and delights in his spot-on sense of humour. "Why didn't anyone tell me", she wonders...