No Room for Losers
Michael Wood: ‘Proust and his Banker’, 14 December 2017
Proust and His Banker: In Search of Time Squandered
by Gian Balsamo.
South Carolina, 272 pp., £37.50, May 2017,978 1 61117 736 7 Show More
by Gian Balsamo.
South Carolina, 272 pp., £37.50, May 2017,
“... The title of Gian Balsamo’s intriguing book is staid enough: Proust and His Banker. The subtitle – ‘In Search of Time Squandered’ – promises all kinds of adventures and invites us to toy with various riddles. When is an opportunity cost – a favourite term with Balsamo – not an opportunity cost? Perhaps when the opportunity turns out to be a disaster, or was never an opportunity in the first place ... ”
