Moby Dick is often referred to as the book most readers have not read or not finished. For me and many others I would guess Remembrance of Things Past is that unfinished epic. I have actually finished the first of three volumes. Though that took me at least four attempts. I have not yet opened the second book. And probably never will.
Today, May 30th, The Bibliophile's Devotional speaks of Proust's magnum opus, thusly:
"This very challenging book - a 3,000 pages novel that was once dismissed as the work of a self-indulgent neurotic dilettante - left one critic complaining that Proust had devoted fifty pages to 'how he turns over and over in his bed before going to sleep.'"
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