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Originally Posted by demonrail666
like you, I find myself having to go back and re-read Proust simply because of the sheer density of his writing. As a result he's probably the only authors I can quote purely from memory. Well, Proust and Fredrick Forsyth maybe, although in his case it's for entirely different reasons.
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The Penguin editions, each with a detailed synopsis at the back, i.e, (I'm flicking through Sodom And Gomorrah) 'Soirée at the Princesse de Guermante's (39). My arrival. Description of the moon (40).' are so useful for this!
That reminds me, a couple of months ago I read Proust by Edmund White, a very short autobiography (less than 200 pages). It has lots of interesting facts in it (nearly every female character is based on a former male lover of his, hence the masculine-sounding names Albert-ine, Gilbert-e - that kind of thing).