Thirty-one years later

I bought this volume in 1980, having read the first two (of the Folio eight-volume edition) as a student. I read sections, at roughly ten-year intervals, until this week I finally found my way back to it and decided it was time to finish. A. S. Byatt recently described how she read the whole of the Recherche one summer and was captivated by it. I've started into the second Guermantes volume now, but I'm not making any predictions about how long it will take me to finish. I should, though, try to make it in less than thirty-one years.