Clara Reads Proust
by Stéphane Cartier
Genre: Fiction
Published: April 30, 2024
Page Count: 192 pages
Summary:
"Clara is a hairdresser at Cindy Coiffure, a sleepy French salon with an identity crisis. Her relationship is fizzling out. Her tanoholic boss Madame Habib worships Jacques Chirac and talks longingly of her days in Paris. The highlight of the week was when the dishy technician came to repair the display cabinet. And now Madame Lévy-Leroyer wants to go blonde. Clara can’t help but wonder if there’s more to life . . .
Everything changes when a customer leaves behind the first volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. As Clara reads, she discovers a whole new world, leading her to strike up an unexpected friendship. And slowly but surely, she will work out who she wants to be."
"Madame Habib is standing on the pavement, wearing a blouse despite the cold, one arm extended to keep her cigarette at a distance, while the other remains folded across her stomach. Tense and shivering, she examines the window of her salon as if she is trying to solve its mystery."
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'"The more you read, the more you like it, have you noticed?"
"You do," says Clare. "Because you get used to its rhythm. At the start you're like I don't understand, this sentence should end and yet it's carrying on, but that's because you're reading it too quickly. That's a mistake. You have to take your time, take breaks. Now, when I read it, I feel like I can hear it speaking to me."'
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You know that you enjoyed a book and were impressed by a book if you, immediately upon finishing the book, take action recommended by characters in the book; I downloaded all seven volumes, all three thousand pages, of Proust when I finished this book.
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