What a great review. And Proust's caution you cited - "Proust himself warned against the hazards of the kind of reading that substitutes itself for “the personal life of the spirit” rather than waking us to that life, thereby turning truth into “a material thing, deposited between the leaves of books like honey ready-made by others.” - seems more relevant today, than ever before.
What a great review. And Proust's caution you cited - "Proust himself warned against the hazards of the kind of reading that substitutes itself for “the personal life of the spirit” rather than waking us to that life, thereby turning truth into “a material thing, deposited between the leaves of books like honey ready-made by others.” - seems more relevant today, than ever before.
ReplyDeleteExcellent, fascinating review!
ReplyDeleteOn a different note, is it actually the case that having the name "Proust" in the title is supposed to help sell books?