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For this meeting, please read in Part Two, within Chapter 2, up to page 561.

Read until the sentence:
"After leaving us for a moment in order to supervise personally the barring of the door and the ordering of our dinner..."

À la recherche du temps perdu is an exploration of "the past" and that which can be grasped, felt, or recaptured for a fleeting instant. Proust felt the effort worthwhile and tackled it in his 4,000-page novel, split into seven volumes.

We are now on Volume 3: "The Guermantes Way". The meetings will be oversubscribed. RSVP, even if you are initially on the waitlist; regular readers/participants (anyone who joined for Swann's Way/Budding Grove) will have a spot.

There are two acclaimed translators for Proust: C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Lydia Davis. I'm reading the Moncrieff version, but do your own research and select the translation you prefer.

Here is a link to the full Moncrieff box set:
https://a.co/d/iumU7XP

Here is a version of The Guermantes Way on Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73425/pg73425.txt

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