"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life."
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin
It looks like 2013 will be the year of Proust.
Many have already expressed interest in a read-a-long which I’ll organize over at Goodreads. If you’re interested, chime in so we can get an idea of a tentative number of Recherche-ians for this project.
"In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to. We often take leave of them, at least, only with regret."
