Swann's Way by Marcel ProustMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Nobody describes a madeleine--or anything else, for that matter, like Proust, the master of literary observation and phenomenological, subjective and objective description. So unbelievably beautiful, you must read it to believe how he lavishes attention on something as mundane as a clock, a dresser, the sun streaming through curtains in a window, anything is putty in his hands. It took me a long time to make the commitment to read the entire series, because basically, once you start this, all bets are off for other novels. It's that engrossing. All writers should take a course in Proust, regardless of whether or not they aspire to writing of this ilk.
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