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A Proust Reading List
I thought it would be helpful to share the list of books related to Proust that I have compiled as I have done previously with Kafka and Dante. This is a very short list so please leave me additional suggestions … Continue reading
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Love, Death, and Indifference in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
In 1893-1894 Proust wrote a story for Les plaisirs et les jours entitled “The Indifferent One.” But at the last minute he pulled it and substituted it with a different piece of writing. Burton Pike, whose translation of the story … Continue reading
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Grande Mortalis Aevi Spatium: Freedom and Servitude in Tacitus and Proust
After the death of the Emperor Domitian, the Roman historian Tacitus decides to write a biography of his father-in-law, Agricola, who suffered through this tyrannical, oppressive and cruel regime. Agricola, who served as a general and governor of Roman Britain … Continue reading
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The Little Patch of Yellow Wall: Proust on memory, regret and death
I keep rereading the same two pages of The Captive in which Proust creates an emotional narrative that involves reflections on Vermeer’s View of Delft, memory, the art of writing, regret, death and reincarnation. There isn’t much to say about … Continue reading
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Lovesickness in Proust’s The Captive
There was an amusing yet horrifying thread going around on literary Twitter about the most painful things people have suffered. (Follow @Unwise_Trousers for this and other, very interesting content, literary and otherwise!) But in many ways emotional pain is worse … Continue reading
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