Today ends the year 2010 and I approach my deadline for reading Proust in a year. I have just under a month to finish if I stick to my exact start date. I am about 250 pages in to the third volume, and I am finding the reading to be moving quickly as Proust begins to set the plot for the end of the series. I am not sure if he has changed his style to finish or if, this is the point when his health began to decline and he began to become concerned about finishing before he died. There are many allusions to early death, illness and protracted struggles with mortality.
Overall, as a final comment, I find that reading this volume is stimulating and refreshing. The plot moves in a defined direction and does not wander off into the lives and thoughts of subtle characters.
Happy New year.
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