![]() ![]() Much of the first part of the book is spent describing his friendship with aristocratic soldier Robert de Saint-Loup and a visit Marcel makes to his camp, mainly with the object of getting an invitation to dinner with Saint-Loup’s aunt, the Duchess of Guermantes. ![]() Our narrator, Marcel, is now a little older (if not much wiser) and still keen to make the acquaintance of any attractive woman who crosses his path. Le Côté de Guermantes ( The Guermantes Way), the third part of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu ( In Search of Lost Time) has the story continuing pretty much as it did in the first two parts. Still, as anniversary choices go, it does mark a great way to celebrate reaching four figures □ I’d like to say that today’s book was carefully selected to mark the occasion, but the truth is that it was completely random. I don’t usually make a big deal of milestones, but WordPress tells me that today’s post is the 1000th to be published here at Tony’s Reading List, and while that’s not a thousand reviews (there have been plenty of fluff pieces scattered among the usual posts), it still makes for an awful lot of digital scribbling. ![]()
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