Reading days

The importance of the book “Days of Reading” stems from its inclusion of 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 forming his personality, giving meaning to life, and strengthening his will to live, he who had been sick with asthma since childhood and suffered from psychological and nervous disorders and from introversion and isolation most of the time, and it enabled him to bear all of this and made him a great writer who turned his intimate life story into a series of novels that went beyond the standards of the traditional novel in terms of narration, character building, the absence of plot, and the open endings that characterized most of his novelistic work in “In Search of Lost Time,” which led some critics to consider him a pioneer of the modern novel.