The Captive Marcel Proust - In The Captive, Prousts narrator describes living in his mothers Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.The longest book I've ever read, longer than those with many more pages. I don't mean the complete Search -- I'm referring to this volume, a mere 936 pages that took me forever. If I'm honest with this impression, I should admit that I find Proust sort of stupefying most of the time. I can only read 15 pages at a time without dosing off or reaching for my phone. But every once in a while there's an image or insight that makes it all worthwhile. I mean, the book is regularly studded with the best of things I look for in books, my copy is regularly dogeared, but this installment is dense and nutso. For the most part, Marcel is with Albertine but doesn't want to be with her ("The Captive"), but once she's gone ("The Fugitive") he's obsessed with her again, madly in love, until he learns of her sudden spoiler alert. Most of the musing seems to be about whether Albertine is getting it on with women
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The Captive
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Marcel Proust
Fue un novelista, ensayista y crítico francés cuya obra maestra, la novelaEn busca del tiempo perdido (título original en francés: À la recherche du temps perdu), compuesta de siete partes publicadas entre 1913 y 1927, constituye una de las cimas de la literatura del siglo XX, enormemente influyente tanto en el campo de la literatura como en el de la filosofía y la teoría del arte.
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