Why Reading Proust Is the Perfect Big Lockdown Project
LOST TIME
At more than 3,000 pages, “In Search of Lost Time” is a literary Everest, but in the midst of quarantine, one literary explorer decided to make the journey.
“I’m reading Proust”: for months I’ve been saying this to myself in front of the mirror. When asked about what I’ve been up to in lockdown, I drop the phrase nonchalantly, as though A La Recherche du Temps Perdu were just any old 200-page potboiler and not the