Why Cyber Proust?
Before finding ones way out of Prousts labrynthine novel, it is important to recognize what he did accomplish and, at first, to take his task seriously. On every page of his 3,000 page masterwork, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, one is met with a boring swim through a sea of densely packed prose. We can only imagine the effort put forth by the author to write this elaborate work. Proust has made his oeuvre so dense, that in the final book, where he reveals everything esthetic, he finds it necessary to make his secret known to his reader, invaluable in understanding his novel. He tells the reader that he intentionally designed the book to be difficult to read, and that this is because he found the discussions in the drawing rooms (which occupy the substance of most of the work) very boring and desired a framework to ensnare habit. This is one of the reasons why Proust spends so much prose-space contemplating the miniscule possibilities of error, the smallest detail of social affect. Prou
