Proust’s Panmnemonicon - Justin Smith-Ruiu’s Hinternet

It’s only January 3, but one thing is clear already: 2024 is going to be the Year of Reading Proust. Everyone, but everyone, on social media is boasting of their firm resolution to do so. The great Ryan Ruby has just published this fine piece on our favorite bedridden French mama’s boy. I thought in light of all of this now would be a good time to share with my free subscribers the big “Proust piece” I myself wrote in 2021. Now that I’ve switched mostly to a paywalled format, I’ve decided regularly to share older non-paywalled pieces as well. If you enjoy them, and you would also like to read my latest and freshest work, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription now. —JSR Upgrade to paid Au lit Marcel Proust represents many things. Chief among these perhaps, especially for non-French readers, is quantity, and therefore the marathon-like endurance of anyone who actually reads all seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time, and can prove it. A 2016 cartoon in the New Yorker features

It’s only January 3, but one thing is clear already: 2024 is going to be the Year of Reading Proust. Everyone, but everyone, on social media is boasting of their firm resolution to do so. The great Ryan Ruby has just published this fine piece on our favorite bedridden French mama’s boy. I thought in light of all of this now would be a good time to share with my free subscribers the big “Proust piece” I myself wrote in 2021. Now that I’ve switched mostly to a paywalled format, I’ve decided regularly to share older non-paywalled pieces as well. If you enjoy them, and you would also like to read