What are the best novels that deal with memory and recollections as a major theme?
>>8095626
In Search of Lost Time
>>8095626
In Search of Lost Time is pretty much the best answer.
>>8095646
>reading translations
>>8095646
Moncrieff is, by a very wide margin, the best translation.
>>8095626
Waiting for Godot
You can bin the rest suggested here
>>8095660
ya, im not gonna learn French, sorry
Patrick Modiano
>>8095646
Lydia Davis by far
>>8095672
Lazy bitch
>>8095765
The Montcrieff is more poignantly written, and the sentence structures are more interesting. The Davis translation isn't bad by any means, but it just doesn't stand up.
Book of the New Sun if you're looking for something about memory beyond the personal level.
The Unconsoled
