Les caves du Vatican

Author	Marcel Proust
ISBN	0142437964

Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his...

Author	Marcel Proust
ISBN	2070381773

It will soon be a year since I read this book so writing a review of it now seems almost impossible. How can I ever retrieve all the thoughts I had about the fifth book in Proust’s seven-volume series (actually the eight in my ten-volume edition). It begins to seem like a sadly futile recherche du temps...

Author	Jean Giraudoux
ISBN	2038717133

Common Sense Versus Irrational Passion: What are the odds for the pacifists?

After reading a sequel to the Iliad this week, The Aeneid, I thought it would make perfect sense to start the weekend by rereading a prequel to it!

And like many prequels, it is written long after the initial...

Author	Marcel Proust
ISBN	0143039075

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...

Author	Leonid Andreyev
ISBN	1406933732

Sergey did not know that the colonel, having locked himself all the previous night in his little study, had deliberated upon this ritual with all his power. "We must not aggravate, but ease the last moments of our son," resolved the colonel firmly, and he carefully weighed every possible phase of the...