There are none. Most books you can understand just fine without working your way level by level unlocking the next achievement like a video game. I’d bet at least 90% of video game or chart readers don’t even finish the first book of their 10 book single book course study. If you love a book enough you can always read influences.
The link to that list of 160 writers is down but most of them are irrelevant 19th century Frenchmen anyways. Like “oh yeah. This guy who wrote a political essay critical of Napoleon III is mentioned page 1,303 and he has five essays to his name.” There’s even a point where the uncle adophe mentions a writer of some kind and the dim witted Odette doesn’t even know who he is talking about. That gives you an idea how obscure some of the names are.
Exactly. Maybe a quick glance at themes and influences section of Wikipedia will help familiarize the reader what to expect but is a book that stands alone fine on its own, like almost every book. These type of OPs have autism and treating reading like homework will hurt you. I remember when charts were all the rage on IQfy and of course nothing got read
>Shout-Out: The characters often talk about literature. The works of Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal (The Charterhouse of Parma), Racine (Phèdre, Athalie, Esther)... are mentioned, as well as many more obscure writers. In total, 180 French writers and 60 foreign writers are mentioned or alluded to. Here is the full list.
That is because he is actually a massive tool and also a dolt. You can't be "quite well read" and then drop the masterwork of the 20th century by the first book.
There are none you stupid fricking "I can only read a book exactly once, therefore I must maximize my reading experience" moron. If you want to read, the book, read it. Stop being a posturing gay. Just do it.
You gotta be a man of leisure to fully appreciate it. It's just not the same if you're reading it in a tiny hole of an apartment or in your car on your lunchbreak.
He means you won't relate to the novel unless you come from that lifestyle. But that's just false anyways. That anon is some marxist class warfare bugman who seethes uncontrollably about the leisurely lives rich people can afford. There's lots of things that are relatable in Proust on a human level. One such thing is how chance events in life can trigger repressed memories. Proust does this very well in the final volume when he describes a succession of three events triggered memories in him that lead to writing the novel. It all started with the narrator tripping on a curb, which triggered a memory. The madelaines was another event that triggered memories, and I remember something about a vase on a mantle. The point is, Proust is about capturing all of life on a pinhead, as Faulkner would say, and he's a master at that
>That anon is some marxist class warfare bugman who seethes uncontrollably about the leisurely lives rich people can afford.
Proust is extremely critical of class structure and can be read from a Marxian angle. That anon is just moronic. Does he think the Verdurins and Princess des Laumes are supposed to be role models?
You have to start with The Greeks of course.
Only after you've read the entirety of history, literature, and philosophy up to the author's own period can you truly read a book.
There are none. You can go ahead and read it. It's a very feminine book, though; I've had blood tests done pre- and mid-reading and plan to do one post when I finish at some point (test levels down quite significantly already). Marcel Proust is basically a character in Otto Weininger's mind writing a book
Also George Sand. I was thinking of buying pic related because it could expand on his influences.
Also Gerard de Nerval and madame Sevigne. Anatole France is who Bergotte is based on. Also a basic Art history and architecture book. None of this is really needed though
The average american brain can't comprehend this book
Some familiarity with the Belle Epoque, French pastries, and the Dreyfus Affair.
dont be moronic
There are none. Most books you can understand just fine without working your way level by level unlocking the next achievement like a video game. I’d bet at least 90% of video game or chart readers don’t even finish the first book of their 10 book single book course study. If you love a book enough you can always read influences.
The link to that list of 160 writers is down but most of them are irrelevant 19th century Frenchmen anyways. Like “oh yeah. This guy who wrote a political essay critical of Napoleon III is mentioned page 1,303 and he has five essays to his name.” There’s even a point where the uncle adophe mentions a writer of some kind and the dim witted Odette doesn’t even know who he is talking about. That gives you an idea how obscure some of the names are.
Exactly. Maybe a quick glance at themes and influences section of Wikipedia will help familiarize the reader what to expect but is a book that stands alone fine on its own, like almost every book. These type of OPs have autism and treating reading like homework will hurt you. I remember when charts were all the rage on IQfy and of course nothing got read
There's no need to care about the specific obscure writers but knowing the context of 19th century France is important.
>Shout-Out: The characters often talk about literature. The works of Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal (The Charterhouse of Parma), Racine (Phèdre, Athalie, Esther)... are mentioned, as well as many more obscure writers. In total, 180 French writers and 60 foreign writers are mentioned or alluded to. Here is the full list.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/MarcelProust
This is the one book my quite well-read grandfather admitted to giving up on.
That is because he is actually a massive tool and also a dolt. You can't be "quite well read" and then drop the masterwork of the 20th century by the first book.
The masterwork of the 20th century is Ulysses.
Both are trash, but In search of lost time is at least readable, albeit homosexual. Ulysses is just angloid filth.
Have an unrequited crush on a teenage girl, and when that falls through, become gay. (this applies to most literature)
There are none you stupid fricking "I can only read a book exactly once, therefore I must maximize my reading experience" moron. If you want to read, the book, read it. Stop being a posturing gay. Just do it.
Jean Cocteau said every voice in the western canon is in opposition to the voice which came before it.
/lit/-posters will do anything to avoid reading books.
It's not gay if I think he's just talking about women instead of his qt bfs?
Grow a moustache.
Being rich and unemployed
What do you mean?
You gotta be a man of leisure to fully appreciate it. It's just not the same if you're reading it in a tiny hole of an apartment or in your car on your lunchbreak.
He means you won't relate to the novel unless you come from that lifestyle. But that's just false anyways. That anon is some marxist class warfare bugman who seethes uncontrollably about the leisurely lives rich people can afford. There's lots of things that are relatable in Proust on a human level. One such thing is how chance events in life can trigger repressed memories. Proust does this very well in the final volume when he describes a succession of three events triggered memories in him that lead to writing the novel. It all started with the narrator tripping on a curb, which triggered a memory. The madelaines was another event that triggered memories, and I remember something about a vase on a mantle. The point is, Proust is about capturing all of life on a pinhead, as Faulkner would say, and he's a master at that
>That anon is some marxist class warfare bugman who seethes uncontrollably about the leisurely lives rich people can afford.
Proust is extremely critical of class structure and can be read from a Marxian angle. That anon is just moronic. Does he think the Verdurins and Princess des Laumes are supposed to be role models?
You have to start with The Greeks of course.
Only after you've read the entirety of history, literature, and philosophy up to the author's own period can you truly read a book.
He would have been so hot with a different set eyes of eyes.
Sadly, the best thing to learn from that book is not to lose time reading it.
if you're not a flaming homosexual you won't get it
Sylvie by Nerval. It was one of the big inspirations for this.
>step 1: be homosexual
>????
>profit?
There are none. You can go ahead and read it. It's a very feminine book, though; I've had blood tests done pre- and mid-reading and plan to do one post when I finish at some point (test levels down quite significantly already). Marcel Proust is basically a character in Otto Weininger's mind writing a book
>Patience
>Time
read Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Saint-Simon, Bergson and something about Dreyfus affair
Also George Sand. I was thinking of buying pic related because it could expand on his influences.
Also Gerard de Nerval and madame Sevigne. Anatole France is who Bergotte is based on. Also a basic Art history and architecture book. None of this is really needed though