Why does /lit/ so rarely speak about Proust? Is it just because noone bothers to read In Search of Lost Time?
He's so widely acclaimed by the literary community, yet I don't see him mentioned on this site as much as, say, Dostoyevski.
>>8291423
>no one bothers to read
this
>>8291429
Though Knausgård is mentioned every so often
>>8291437
Knausgard's much more accessible than Proust, and more hip.
>>8291444
But Proust is good right? I should read him?
>>8291423
Is that a deliberate mise en scene of the old joke about killing six billion jews and a clown?
>>8291509
Proust is one of the greatest authors ever. Read him. Read all of In Search of Lost Time, don't just read the first part and say that's enough.
>>8291582
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/03/the_festival_of_purim.html
/lit/ has long ago graduated from the stuffy, boring neuroses of a proto-Lacanian french homosexual
