“A Silver Knife Striking A Wall of Glass”
A number of factors led me to read this novel. Not least was Félix Guattari offering that to read À la recherche is more worthwhile than to read all the works of Freud. He wasn’t wrong as this novel, seen as the apex of the Haute-Bourgeois, turned out to be not only a decimation of that class, but an affective tour-de-force in which listening to music is a central and organising theme throughout all its pages.
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