Popular Science - A Nerd’s Guide to Reading. Location, Location, Location. PROUST IS DAMN FUNNY. Adelle Waldman reads Proust in the park and delights in his spot-on sense of humour.
"Why didn't anyone tell me", she wonders... Recently a friend and I were lolling about at a neighbourhood park when she asked why I was reading Proust--"other than for bragging rights. " Had she asked me the question just a few hours earlier, I might have stumbled over something pompous or false. But it just so happened that I'd had an epiphany about "Remembrance of Things Past," and an answer at the ready: "It's funny," I said. "I expected Proust to be a lot of things, but no one ever told me how funny he would be. " Exceptindreams: 674: A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You.