No time for tomes like these | Letters

Daunted by Proust or Joyce? Letters from Ian Arnott , Mike Bromberg and Andrew Keeley on giving up on a long read Dave Patten says Proust’s In Search of Lost Time was unreadable ( Letters 22 May ). When I was a student of French in the 1970s I attempted to read it in French, but gave up after volume one. The only person I knew who had read it all in the original French was one of our lecturers who told us he had done it to pass the time one long summer vacation when he was laid up with gout. À c

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