Book 11: Le Cote de Guermantes
11 LE COTE DE GUERMANTES (Eng. Tr.: THE GUERMANTES WAY) Marcel Proust (France, 1920)
This is the third installement of In Search of Lost Time.
The narrator is now fully a part of Parisian society, where politics and art are discussed in the most fashionable salons.
This third volume is the most political so far, as the Dreyfus Affair is discussed everywhere the narrator goes. The shallowness and hypocrisy of the aristocracy are also starting to reveal themselved to the narrator, who becomes increasingly disappointed with society.
4/5
This is the third installement of In Search of Lost Time.
The narrator is now fully a part of Parisian society, where politics and art are discussed in the most fashionable salons.
This third volume is the most political so far, as the Dreyfus Affair is discussed everywhere the narrator goes. The shallowness and hypocrisy of the aristocracy are also starting to reveal themselved to the narrator, who becomes increasingly disappointed with society.
4/5