In search of time lost reading Proust twice | Brief letters

Rereading Proust | Corpses’ underwear | Passing on clutter | Birds at meetings | Split infinitives | The far rightReading Remembrance of Things Past all the way through is not enough to appreciate Proust’s masterpiece (Letters, 26 September). You need to read it a second time in the light of the events in the last volume, particularly the account of the meal at which characters from the previous eleven volumes reappear. The second reading is an entirely different experience, knowing