Can the BBC save me at last from the secret shame of never having read Proust? | LauraSFreeman
“For a long time I used to go to bed early.” Here we go. Limber up. Flex those reading muscles. It’s the annual attempt to read Marcel Proust. “Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say ‘I’m going to sleep.’” And just like that, within two sentences, I’m flagging, eyes closing, book drooping. Maybe next year…
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