Ooh. Where'd you get your copy?

Maybe if you apply yourself, you may yet win a third Pulitzer.

Teamed up with three men in disguises to kill some more.

Always a good plan.

I don't think there's even another English translation around. I found one on Amazon, but take a look at this sketchy table of contents. ("Error! Bookmark not defined." What?)

Yes, I can attest to that! Took a while to hunt down a copy. (Even harder to find in hard copy is your The Girl with the Golden Eyes.)

Ah. So this is where the cover of Edmund White's Rimbaud bio comes from.

No wonder he took so long to start writing. Must have been so afraid to disappoint himself! 🤭

Once, the two ways were Villebon and Meséglise. #Proust #Proustsky

These manuscripts include early drafts of the Search, found in the archives of Bernard de Fallois in 2018, shortly after his death. #Proust #Proustsky

I have this. It’s very dense. 😂 For me anyway. 😂😂 Exactly what you would expect from Beckett writing about Proust.

This is how long albums used to be. The CD's 80-minute capacity made them longer and longer, with more and more filler.

An encouraging sign at her age. 😂

You can supplement its skimpy annotations with A Guide to Proust (which comes with the last volume of the Modern Library set), Vogely, Karpeles, and maps. Carter himself relies HEAVILY on Vogely and Karpeles, so why not.

For that I am holding out for Oxford, each of the first two volumes of which is the best available, especially if you have no romantic attachment to CKSM. For the latter, the Enright edit remains the best.

There are various types of errors in the first four volumes, but the fifth is just absolutely riddled with them—some carried over from Scott Moncrieff, many introduced by Carter himself. Unforgivable for such expensive books that claim to be authoritative. This is not the edition of first choice.