Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

A community portal about Marcel Proust with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In... [more]

A community portal about Marcel Proust with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time, a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction consisting of seven volumes published from 1913 to 1927.

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For the next week, October 1st-7th 2009, the folks who brought you Patrick Alexander’s guide to Marcel Proust , Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time will host a series of 140-character “lectures” about Proust’s oeuvre on Twitter. The course will repeat on the week of the 8th. The press release includes the following grading component: We’re pretty sure the grading plan is fairly tongue in cheek, but the lectures might be fun, and perhaps might contain something a bit more substantial than the average, uh, tweet (ugh). More at Proust Guide . There’s also a chance to win free Proust stuff for those who ... Read Full Story
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In his introduction to his reader’s guide to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time , Patrick Alexander observes that “Except for those fortunate enough to spend several years confined to a hospital bed, a federal prison, or to be stranded on a desert island with their preselected library, few modern readers have the time to tackle a novel with more than three thousand pages, a million and a half words, and more than four hundred individual characters.” Alexander goes on to point out that “Proust’s novel is increasingly read only by professional academics,” a trend he describes as a “great pity.” Alexander wants you ... Read Full Story
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Today marks the 85th anniversary of Marcel Proust's death at the age of 51 in Paris. If in the picture above he looks like a pompous, effete, homosexual aristocrat, remember that appearances can be deceiving, but, from what I understand, they aren't in this case. After all these years, still no one has actually finished reading his magnum opus, In Search of Lost Time , a novel in six volumes. If you've read three of the volumes, you're allowed to write a popular, vapid book about Proust , and if you've read four volumes, you're allowed to write a dull, scholarly book about him ... Read Full Story
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” If you want to make money online, you can’t beat a a blog. Here’s the information you need to get started. Tags: discovery , marcel proust , Marcel Proust quote , Motivational Quote , proust , voyage This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 4:36 am and is filed under Authors . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Read Full Story
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You have to love Germaine Greer when she’s at her best – sarcastic, caustic, pretty bloody funny. In the Guardian this week, she rants about what a waste of time it is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: “If you haven’t read Proust, don’t worry. This lacuna in your cultural development you do [...] Related posts:Wanted: Reading TimeTechno-poets  
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It's a hundred years ago about this time of year that Marcel Proust holed himself up in a cork-lined room to begin writing A la recherche du temps perdu.I have little to remember of Proust, as my copy of Swann's Way lies (mostly) unread under my bed (though I did read the first 30-odd pages about 20 years ago (and I don't remember them)). But last week I received in the mail an unsolicited review copy of Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A...  
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People have studied many things relating to, and regarding Marcel Proust; what they may never have told you is... Proust is funny!! (just not "Lucky Jim" funny.) Professor of French, Catherine LeGouis at Mount Holyoke also reads Proust, and sees the humour: Then last year, while on sabbatical in Moscow, having already decided to teach this course, I reread the whole Recherche again, this time using the annotated four-volume Pléiade edition...  
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Looking for a Marcel Proust quote in the original French. “Love is space and time directly perceptible to the heart” is what my copy of Auden's Book of Aphorisms says, but I want to know know what Proust originally wrote. Googling around I can find that it's from The Captive (La Prisonnière), and I can do a machine translation, but I'd rather know the original French.  
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What is your greatest regret? On what occasion do you lie? In an excerpt from V.F.’s latest effort, The Proust Questionnaire, 10 of our age’s most recognizable luminaries submit to Marcel Proust’s favorite parlour game.  
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