What prerequisite reading, both literature and philosophy, would optimize my experience reading In Search of Lost Time by Proust?
>>9979053
Just jump into it
>>9979053
>The Republic by Plato
>The Organon by Aristotle
>Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie by Ernst Cassirer
>Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
>Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann
>The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling (skip the other 6 books)
>The Ultimate Dessert Guide to San Francisco by Christine Mule
>The new Science by Giambattista Vico
>>9979053
Nothing. He talks a lot about other writers, like Flaubert, Racine, Balzac, Sand, Tolstoy, Doestoevsky, etc., but it's not like you need to have read the whole canon to understand the discussion.