Days of Reading, by Marcel Proust

The book "Days of Reading" despite its small size is considered one of Marcel Proust's most important works after his massive publication "In Search of Lost Time," which gained him worldwide fame. The importance of "Days of Reading" stems from containing the essence of the ideas that Proust formed and experienced about reading and its role not only in refining his literary talent but also in shaping his personality, giving meaning to life, and strengthening his will to live. He has been ill since childhood with asthma and suffered from psychological and nervous disorders that sometimes led him to the hospital and most often to withdrawal and isolation. It enabled him to endure all this and made him a great writer who turned his intimate life story into a series of novels that are outside the traditional novel standards in terms of narration, character building, lack of plot, and open endings, which characterized most of his fictional work in "In Search of Lost Time," leading some critics to consider him the pioneer of modern novel. Number of pages: 82