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The boringest bit in Proust

The boringest bit in Proust

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Naomi K
May 26, 2016
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Wrote this awhile ago, when I was still reading Proust:

This time around I've been finding Proust to be pretty engaging on a page-by-page level. I don't really have to force myself to keep reading, and I don't have trouble following what's going on.

Except for one part!

Albertine.

God how I hate her.

This is the narrator's primary love interest: a girl he me…

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