Proustian Echoes

Books pervaded with a deep, elegiac yearning for lost time—like the first two volumes of Proust’s similarly titled novel.

Music to listen to:
- 1979, by The Smashing Pumpkins

Films to watch:
- The Long Day Closes, by Terence Davies
- Mirror, by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Wild Strawberries, by Ingmar Bergman

(I’ve added Proust to the list so that people can find it.)

(This was my attempt to cope with my overwhelming grief at being unable to find another book as good as those ones, which still hasn’t left me.)

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1	To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.81 avg rating — 209,158 ratings score: 389, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier 3.72 avg rating — 15,105 ratings score: 298, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Waves by Virginia Woolf 4.14 avg rating — 51,720 ratings score: 287, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov 4.08 avg rating — 17,496 ratings score: 286, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 4.39 avg rating — 17,302 ratings score: 286, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa 3.71 avg rating — 127,866 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova 3.84 avg rating — 2,173 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust 4.16 avg rating — 66,781 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk 3.82 avg rating — 21,823 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 3.94 avg rating — 1,733 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard 4.18 avg rating — 10,967 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Pilgrimage, complete in 4 volumes by Dorothy M. Richardson 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier 3.54 avg rating — 2,913 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Stones of Summer by Dow Mossman 3.17 avg rating — 578 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine 3.82 avg rating — 4,165 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album (Graywolf Rediscovery Series) by Larry Woiwode 4.14 avg rating — 216 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen 4.23 avg rating — 236 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	A Book of Memories by Péter Nádas 4.06 avg rating — 647 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Complete Novels by Henry Roth 3.81 avg rating — 69 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars