John Middleton Murry, in an early review, wrote, "No English reader will get more out of reading 'Du cote de chez Swann' in French than he will out of reading 'Swann's Way' in English," and amateur book readers, for whom other works of mega-modernism — "The Man Without Qualities," or "Buddenbrooks" — remain schoolwork, still read Proust.
John Middleton Murry, in an early review, wrote, "No English reader will get more out of reading 'Du cote de chez Swann' in French than he will out of reading 'Swann's Way' in English," and amateur book readers, for whom other works of mega-modernism—"The Man Without Qualities," or "Buddenbrooks"—remain schoolwork, still read Proust.
If you come out of reading this thinking I'm a lesson giver who's left the building, you're missing the point.
I don't mind lugging five paperbacks with me on a two-day trip, and there's something oddly enjoyable about scouring your shelf for the right five books, because heaven forbid you run out of reading material during those 48 hours.
Gone is the panic of running out of reading matter.
I was shocked out of reading Tolkien by encountering Kafka.
He never took the joy out of reading.
I took a year out of reading law at Cambridge to look after her.
"I'm a self-educated man and don't get everything I'd like to get out of reading.
(And remember, you'll get more out of reading Derrida on Plato if you read Plato first).
"I managed to get out of reading them somehow," Loseff recalls.
