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French literature has always been generous to readers who want different things from a book. There's the comic invention of Rabelais, where language itself becomes a feast, and the propulsive plotting of Dumas, where one chapter pulls you helplessly into the next. There's Balzac's Paris, hot and crowded with schemers, and Flaubert's quieter provinces, where a single sentence can be polished until it cuts. And there's Proust, who somehow contains all of it — the social comedy, the patient observation, the sentence that unfolds across a page and arrives exactly where it meant to. The tradition rewards almost any kind of attention you bring to it.