Relation of Parts I and II This section of Swann’s Way closes out “Combray” and opens “Swann in Love,” a section I initially found baffling.
Proust 2020/2021: Within a Budding Grove (pp. 661–730)
Ongoing Theme of Seriality / Multiplicity Continuing the theme that I called “monotonous” in my previous post, the closing pages of Proust’s second volume analyze,
Proust 2020/2021: Within a Budding Grove (pp. 582–661)
Regret: On the Contingent and Universal As the Narrator watches Albertine continue on her way “to join her friends,” he describes his sense of “despair”
Deliberate Reading: Sharpe, King, Jackson
Texts Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. NYU P, 2020. King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of
Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 139–224)
Lots of thoughts. Tough to formalize into sentences—or a sketch. But perhaps the one major feature that stood out in these pages, structurally, was the
Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 65–139)
On the one hand, I get a great deal of pleasure from the Narrator’s explanations of what used to give him so much pleasure in
Sketching a Present 