Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust; Madame Swann At Home (150 pages)

For Proust, RSVP at: Les Deux Magots:
https://www.meetup.com/les-deux-magots/

For this meeting, please read the first 150 pages of Within A Budding Grove; Madame Swann At Home.

Read up until: "Swann Replied: "But you ought to know a great deal better than I do, since you're in her confidence, the great favorite, the crack, as the English say."

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.

Whether you are first-time reader of Proust, or a re-reader, join us for Volume Two; Within A Budding Grove. I expect a total of 5 meetings to discuss Within A Budding Grove. The meetings will be oversubscribed. RSVP, even if you are initially on the waitlist, and the regular readers/participants (anyone who joined for Swann's Way) 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 Within a Budding Grove on Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/63532/pg63532.txt