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Proust's Unfinished Sentences, Buried in the Footnotes You'd Skip

There's a footnote in Peter Brooks's NYRB piece on Proust that behaves like a razor clam: narrow, slippery, buried in the sand of the March 21, 2024 issue, and absolutely worth the dig. The review, "In Search of His Vocation," is always going to be smart because Brooks is always worth reading. But the final section is the thing. He reproduces a chunk of it, and that chunk is where the unfinished sentences live. Readers who can't get enough of Proust from the novel now can find more in the margins. That's the spoot of it. The text you'd skip holds the sharpest point. You circle back. You already had a tab open on this.