Monday, March 8, 2010

Particular in Modern

There are many things about the writing that continue to fascinate me while reading Proust. One thing in particular is how his writing seems so fresh and of the time I am in. I believe that this is one of the things about his work that makes it perhaps the greatest work in the English language. As an example he speaks of going to the theater and the society around him treating the theater as if it were their own drawing room, a problem we have discussed often in regards to people in the movie theaters. Obviously, this is not a isolated trend, and further, the exposure of this fact is what makes reading great works of literature or any reading of books for that matter so very worthwhile as we can be assisted in putting our lives into a greater focus and perspective.

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