Reading, ignorance
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A reflection on reading Proust’s The Guermantes Way in the new Oxford World’s Classics translation, and on how notes, context, and literary criticism can both illuminate and distance the experience. The essay contrasts worldly signs, love, sensuous signs, and art to explain why some novels resist easy attention while still revealing time, memory, and the pleasures of rereading.