>tfw want to read Proust now but cant speak french Should

>>8811195
>frog faggot
>should I kill myself?

Yes

You don't want to read Proust. We had to read it during high-school, and even if he has a good writing style, he's boring as fuck and you wouldn't go through more than a dozen of pages.

>>8811197
>We had to read it during high-school
lel

>>8811201
but i read whole swann way and enjoyed it, althought in translation. I Imagine reading it in french must be some joyous , ecstatic experience

I bought À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleur despite not being quite good enough at French because I was scared that the English title would make me look like a paedo.

>>8811201
>read Proust in high school

ok

>>8811286
>>8811205
Yep. What's wrong with that ?
We didn't read the whole shit.

>>8811301
Stop lying faggot. You didn't have to read Proust in high school. No one does.

>>8811301

then why bother reading it at all?

>>8811349
You don't publish something over the course of 15 years if the component parts don't work on their own.

>>8811313
We did. It must be shocking for an american mind, I understand.

>>8811368

> Treating the work as though it's a collection of short stories

>>8811410
Tu n'y es pas du tout, mon vieux. La lecture vraisemblablement était trop hâtive ; or tu n'as plus 15 ans je l'espère, donc pourquoi propager cette opinion juvénile ?

>>8811313
I had to as well (when we were 18)
Everyone else in the class hated it

>>8811349
Ouverture and Combray work fine as examples of Proust's style and innovations.