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Originally Posted by NWRA
That's my favourite of them, I think, specifically the Balbac section, and the descriptions of the girls. That or the Swann In Love mini-story, for its descriptions of 'the little phase' in the music, Swann's love which is near madness (uncomfortably intense at points) and the great bathos at the end. I could read it again, now.
I think I managed one Proust book every six months (and for a lot of that time, I was unemployed, so I had an advantage haha). Not only is it very long, its so dense that I kept on needing to re-read pages as I went along
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like you, I find myself having to go back and re-read Proust simply because of the sheer density of his writing. As a result he's probably the only authors I can quote purely from memory. Well, Proust and Fredrick Forsyth maybe, although in his case it's for entirely different reasons.