# Summarise Proust

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarise-proust/382618>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 2, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarise-proust/382618 "2006-12-02T21:47:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarise-proust/382618/1 "2006-12-02T21:47:22Z")

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No, really.

On a bookshelf just above this computer there is a seven volume set of _In Search Of Lost Time_ which stares down at me reproachfully because I haven’t read any of it yet. I know the first volume (_Swann’s Way_) effectively kicks off when someone dips a madeleine in their tea and commences to look backwards in time. But what then? What is so special about this _oeuvre_? Has anyone here read it?

Why should I read Proust?

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summarise-proust/382618/2 "2006-12-02T22:06:04Z")

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Proust in his first book, wrote about, wrote about…

[Ding!] Start again.