| 单词 | Proust |
| 例句 | I was looking for the tomb of a famous writer—Marcel Proust, I think, or maybe George Sand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I can no more tell you what happens to her than I can tell you what becomes of Proust’s Narrator or Holden Caulfield’s sister or Huckleberry Finn after he lights out for the territories.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z That every year, on her birthday, her father would present her with another puzzle and another novel, and she would read all of Jules Verne and all of Dumas and maybe even Balzac and Proust? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Proust is telling Marie that, during their eight years of living next to one another, she has come to occupy real space in his imagination. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s got the detail I like in a lot of writers – that’s why I like Proust, that’s why I like Updike. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z You teach a class on Proust at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The private lives of geniuses are not a fault to be tolerated, as the young Proust supposed, but a resource to be extracted and packaged for public consumption. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z According to the Proust questionnaire in Vanity Fair, you want to be reincarnated as the most dependable pack mule on the Grand Canyon mule team. Confirm or Deny: Laurie Metcalf 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z A dandy who reads Proust and listens to Édith Piaf, Alexandre is obsessed with the past, mainly the aborted revolution of 1968. ‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z The nervy, spiritual side of the couturier is shown early on in a room devoted to Marcel Proust, his influence on the designer and the dresses worn at the famous Rothschild “Proust Ball” in 1971. Special Report: Paris Fashion Week: Saint Laurent: Revolutionary Romantic 2010-03-09T19:28:00Z The cadre of famous names with an affinity for the Ritz throughout its existence included Marcel Proust, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Coco Chanel, who lived there for 34 years, from 1937 to 1971. The Ritz Paris Is Back 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z This one is, because Allen tried to do in 93 minutes what Proust needed 11 volumes for: to resolve life, love and the passing of both. Annie Hall: Archive review 2010-10-18T10:53:00Z Midway through that second volume I realized the scope, the majesty and the scale of Proust's accomplishment. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Like a character from a Proust story or the Pixar film "Ratatouille," those dishes summon emotions and evoke sense memories that are meaningful to me on a spiritual level. Confessions of a conflicted carnivore: Are my health issues karma? 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Soon she is tackling Proust, discussing Jean Genet with the president of France and delving into biographies of Sylvia Plath. An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time “Anything great in this world has come from neurotics,” Marcel Proust wrote. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z "It's a lot less recursive and reflexive than Proust," he notes. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He also knew Proust and helped inspire the character Charles Swann; the fictional and real aesthetes, Mr. de Waal writes, were “both experts in the arcane subject of Venetian 15th-century medallions.” Antiques: 264 Carvings Tell History of Edmund de Waal?s Family 2010-08-12T21:10:00Z Yeah, I know, Proust wrote all about this stuff in the opening pages of “Remembrance of Things Past.” Review: Dreaming of ‘Home,’ With a Magical Guide in His Underwear 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Biography was, he said, a peculiarly British phenomenon: "If you want a biography of Proust, or Mann, or Goethe, or Strindberg, or Ibsen, you found yourself reading a British writer." Michael Holroyd laments the decline of biography 2011-08-18T18:08:26Z While the sleek airplane has a futuristic capsule quality, on the train, I was reminded of Proust: “I was surrounded by the soothing activity of all those movements of the train which kept me company.” Skipping the airport, saving the planet: My 19-hour carbon-saving jaunt across America 2014-02-18T23:59:00Z The apartment has not been maintained as Proust left it, with his furniture and artifacts intact, but has instead become the location of a bank. Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Edith Wharton, William Wordsworth and Marcel Proust drafted prose and verse from their beds. Working From Bed Is Actually Great 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z A mistress of metaphor and sparking detail, and with more punch than Proust, Colette's descriptions are often laugh out loud funny, at once cruel and compassionate, but usually followed swiftly by a warm, reflective melancholy. Colette has more punch than Proust 2011-03-25T14:00:03Z It was Marie, as the book’s title indicates, with whom Proust carried on the bulk of the correspondence; twenty-three of the twenty-six letters in the volume are addressed to her. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z THE Swedish Academy hailed Patrick Modiano as “a Marcel Proust of our time” when it awarded him the Nobel prize in literature last month. French letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z I read Henry James’s “Washington Square” for the first time a couple of weeks before that, and last summer I read Proust’s “The Guermantes Way” in the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. Sally Rooney’s Attention Span Has Improved 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In Marcel Proust's book "In Search of Lost Time," the narrator famously reminisces about tasting a madeleine dipped in tea. My Oma’s apple pancakes — and why they never taste the same without her 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Proust lined his bedroom walls with cork so he could sleep through the Paris day and write at night. Writing at night 2010-12-21T15:05:18Z He admits into evidence, in his typical second-cousin-once-removed style, an email from a friend of the Apples, a Russian-born professor who now finds Proust “useless and dated” and Faulkner no longer worthy of curiosity. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Coco Chanel and Marcel Proust lived there, and Ernest Hemingway was so frequent a guest that they named a bar for him. Fire at Ritz Hotel in Paris Stuns the Fashion Crowd 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But the new work, while playing with those expectations, owes a lot more to Proust than to Poe, as a wrenching examination of memory and the ways it shapes identity. White Paint, Chocolate, and Postmodern Ghosts 2011-01-30T02:17:14Z These days we often think of the 1920s as one of the highpoints of the novel, with practitioners such as DH Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, F Scott Fitzgerald and Herman Hesse. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z In “Reality Hunger,” Proust is described as “at base an essayist.” Books Of the Times: ‘How Literature Saved My Life,’ by David Shields 2013-02-03T20:49:32Z And this is where Charles, Jewish, charming and social, a collector, art historian and editor, entertained and encouraged Proust. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Like Proust, he seems to pick over the past in search of its essence, tackled through lush colour and a storm of brush marks. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z One gallery dedicated to Paris will introduce viewers to Charles Ephrussi in his role as collector, historian, patron and inspiration for artists ranging from Manet to Marcel Proust. Tracing a Family History Through the Journey of a Tiny Figurine 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z As Anthony Lane mentioned in his review of “Mr. Klein,” Losey took on the project when another one—an adaptation of Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past”—fell through. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In an essay about translating Proust’s letters, Davis voyages to the apartment where he wrote much of “In Search of Lost Time.” Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Proust was capable of not only seeing the intricacy of his fictive protagonist’s inner life, but also the tenderness in the lives of others, as well as the beauty and decadence of their 19th-century world. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z "With involved sentences, musings over moods and manners, and whatnot, the book is significant only for those anointed few who find Proust the genius of the age," our reviewer scoffed. Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In addition to translating Proust and Flaubert, she has tackled a biography of Marie Curie, art catalogs, travel essays, histories of China and more. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z The longest bath he ever took, she said, was before moderating a panel with three Proust historians at a monthly literary breakfast he started while at Random House. Harry Evans, Potentate of Print, Was Also a Social Butterfly 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Proust’s epic now feels to me sort of twee and also not discontinuous enough. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The “little phrase” that Proust describes in Vinteuil’s sonata, the one that emerges over the piano’s rippling, may well be the second theme of Saint-Saëns’s first movement. Music Review: Paul Huang’s New York Debut Recital at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-12-20T23:17:14Z I have always liked his description of himself as “a spoilt Proust.” Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It contains tributes to Anthony Powell and Proust, and takes swipes at old comrades, such as Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z It is perhaps no surprise that Egan cites Proust and The Sopranos among her Goon Squad influences. Time lady 2011-04-01T08:13:48Z As a reader, Cavin's early tastes were more for Marcel Proust than for Agatha Christie. Ruth Cavin, editor of mysteries, dies at age 92 2011-01-10T15:57:09Z Is this the only known glimpse of Marcel Proust in a motion picture? Is This Really Marcel Proust in a Movie? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z As well as Proust, he translated Luigi Pirandello, an Italian writer, despite claiming unfamiliarity with Italian, and Stendhal, a Frenchman whose short sentences were a relief after Proust’s sprawling prose. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me,” Proust writes. Chicken Soup for the Weary Soul 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z He gave form to “the heavenly pasturage our minds can find in things,” is how Proust once put it. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z His vast influence has spilled into the work of writers and artists from Proust to Freud, the futurists to Francis Bacon, Duchamp to Douglas Gordon. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z You see even when I've felt myself hopelessly drifting in my little boat, I've felt the lulling beauty of Proust's writing. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Meanwhile, in literature, Marcel Proust was using memory to complicate more straightforward storytelling, and it wouldn’t be long before modernists like Woolf and Joyce were compressing, dilating, and folding time in half. Anthony Doerr Reviews a New Book on Time Travel 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z And her friend thought she heard Marcel Proust being paged in the Amsterdam airport. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z And sometimes it is excessively basic, as when Jane Fonda offers up Proust for Beginners. Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It 2011-08-18T23:00:12Z Fisher, whom she describes as “just like Proust only better because she at least gave the recipes.” Eve Babitz, a Glamour Girl Who Refused to Be Dull 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Like Proust, Ernaux is always trying to envisage the book she will write — this very book we are reading, in a fluent, idiomatic translation by Alison L. Strayer. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z There’s a certain perfume that acts just like Proust’s madeleine on me. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z The magic of reading, for Proust, is in its "populated solitude". Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z “I didn’t think that God could add to my pain, when I learned of yours,” Proust writes. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z No. There’s a thing that Marcel Proust referred to as supersaturation. Robin Thicke on ‘Blurred Lines’ and Learning From His Mistakes 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z So look again, because this is a writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert and as epoch-making, in her own way, as Proust. My hero: Lydia Davis by Ali Smith 2013-05-24T15:00:03Z As the new stations opened, Marcel Proust was at work on his own great innovation. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z This is a famous one, of course: from it we get the common English title of Proust’s masterpiece. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z However, despite its reputation for producing amateur dreck or your crazy uncle’s genealogical findings, self-publishing has a long history that includes such luminaries as Marcel Proust and Lewis Carroll. I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They were not ordinary classroom discussions – Joyce, Proust, Conrad, Flaubert, Tolstoy: whatever he felt like teaching. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Client meetings are held in Proust’s bedroom, and the bank’s waiting room is where the writer once warehoused an unruly pile of inherited possessions. Translation Is Hard Work. Lydia Davis Makes It Thrilling. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Davis is also a highly regarded translator of Proust and Flaubert. Books of The Times: Lydia Davis’s ‘Can’t and Won’t’ 2014-04-01T19:40:25Z For Marianne, who spent her senior lunches reading Proust in the cafeteria, it’s a given that she will attend Trinity. Review | At 28, Sally Rooney has been called the voice of her generation. Believe the hype. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z At one point, Kalka casually reminds us that Proust actually fought a pistol duel over a negative review of his first book. ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z But his book is also very much about the things that kept him alive — Bach’s music, Proust’s fiction, friends and acuteness of all variety. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z A friend gave it to me when I was going through a Proust phase, and it’s such a beautiful book. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z I am working my way through Proust because it seems that there is the notion that every writer ought to and because I have been a Francophile since my first French class in third grade. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The Proust quote at the start of the book states that, in spite of the regrets it may weigh upon us in later life, "adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything". Palo Alto by James Franco ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z “Paging Mr. Proust” has fewer country and folk touches than usual and more influences from outside the roots world, including elements of Krautrock and electronica. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Now that I can read Proust in French, I’d like to tackle his early, unfinished novel “Jean Santeuil,” which looks pretty substantial. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Time Regained, an elegant and endearing adaptation of the final volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, came out in 1999. Raul Ruiz, 1941-2011: Death of a Little-Known Movie Master 2011-08-22T10:20:00Z Charles McGrath: What’s fascinating about that letter is that at 19 Updike, though a prodigy, probably hadn’t read very much Joyce or Proust. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z "I write lying down — much like Marcel Proust. The only thing I have in common with him," Chris Weitz says, laughing. Chris Weitz talks about his YA novel, 'The Young World' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z He quotes Igor Stravinsky describing Marcel Proust as “pale as a midafternoon moon.” Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z He devoured the seven volumes of Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” in seven days. ‘Avid Reader’: Robert Gottlieb’s candid look inside the golden era of publishing 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Talking to Raymond about color and experience and his love of Tangier is a bit like talking to an English version of Marcel Proust. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z The paragraph continues with hosannas about the magazine, ending with Ms. Mengers telling its editor, Graydon Carter, that, “It’s like Proust.” Review: ‘Can I Go Now?,’ a Biography of the Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Bacon once said that telling his life story “would take a Proust.” Review | Francis Bacon was an elusive figure. A new biography presents novel details of his iconoclastic existence. 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z But despite that and the feasting with panthers leitmotif, unless Proust has indeed changed your life, it's a long haul. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-08-03T21:55:12Z This discovery of collective madness seems closest to the achieved wisdom Proust alluded to, attained only after a long journey through the wilderness. Torn Between War and Art, a Journalist Chooses Both 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Or, to apply our Coleridge Tea Test again here: To know that Proust dipped a madeleine in tea isn’t interesting; that his novel unpacks this into a disquisition on the architecture of memory is. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z A year of reading Proust we can understand — but a year of reading Salinger? ‘My Salinger Year,’ by Joanna Rakoff At that point, Mr. Denk said, “I was bringing Proust to meetings.” Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z The French administrator lives in a cloud of self-deception, believing in the beneficial impact of Racine and Proust on the local population. The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution – review 2013-04-02T13:37:00Z By 1918, however, and just before the armistice, Gallimard was invited by Proust to the Ritz, where he was delighted to feed on a "very tender chicken" and resolve the matter to everyone's satisfaction. Rouge et noir 2011-03-26T00:05:23Z Yet, in pure plot terms, pretty much all that happens in those first pages of Proust is that the young Marcel struggles to fall asleep. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z And, oh, joy, we both had read lots and lots of Proust in high school as well; it took me all of my senior year. I’m gay. Why did I marry a woman? 2012-11-11T02:15:00Z Suppose, to avoid citing contemporary names, we were giving this award in 1923, and found ourselves arguing whether Marcel Proust was "the best", or James Joyce, or Thomas Hardy, or Joseph Conrad. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z And Proust's broken love chord ripples through all Pat's work. What Patricia Highsmith did for love: 'The Price of Salt' and the secrets behind 'Carol' 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Someone like Bellow probably had other ambitions, Roth writes, “inspired by your European masters, by Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Proust, Kafka, and such ambitions don’t include writing about the neighbors gabbing on the back porch.” The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z While there exist many photographs of Proust, there is no recording of the author’s voice and no known film footage, he said. Is This Really Marcel Proust in a Movie? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z June 21 Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania Any discussion of Updike seems to lead back to Pennsylvania. Updike at Work: On Proust and Pennsylvania 2010-06-21T14:48:00Z Proust had once been a man about town, but by the time he moved to Boulevard Haussmann his terrible asthma kept him inside. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z "I thought of all the extraordinary people who must have played in the garden as children—first and foremost, Marcel Proust," the architect says. Frank Gehry's Masterful Fondation Louis Vuitton Debuts in Paris 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Started by two Yale professors and a graduate student in 2008, the Web site provides a binding contract to help you meet a particular goal, whether it is shedding pounds, quitting smoking or finishing Proust. Books of The Times: Weak-Kneed Willpower Faces Temptation?s Lure 2010-12-30T21:50:25Z But the question of whether the novelist is another Dickens or Proust is absurd. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Not all namesakes are French — A is for Andersen, Hans Christian, for example, and S for Shakespeare, William — but Flaubert, Hugo, Proust and Zola are among the scribes whose text is stenciled above the beds. | Check In, Check Out: A Room With a View (of Art) for the Night 2010-10-07T02:12:00Z "The very fact that I couldn't, like Proust, return to my personal memory" laid the groundwork. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z Proust In Search of Lost Time, the ultimate binge book. Dear Match Book: Authors I Can Binge-Read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Early on in his story, which toggles between the battlefield and the home front, Saleh finds a volume of Proust’s masterwork, left by a fighter in a ruined building. Torn Between War and Art, a Journalist Chooses Both 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Proust kept a telephone in his bedroom until the First World War broke out, and had a separate contraption called a théâtrophone that allowed him to listen to live concerts through the receiver. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Of course, describing Proust in terms of plot alone does no justice to the reflections, counter-reflections, digressions and musings that form so much of the immersive pleasure he offers. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z All of this leads Pamuk into some interesting re-evaluations of Flaubert, Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Dickens as he explores the oscillations between "naive" and "sentimental" and the search for an equilibrium between these two poles. Deadlines can give life to creative writing 2011-02-28T10:43:22Z We don’t want to read only Proust — or listen only to “Madame Butterfly.” Opera as lively art — or not-so-lively 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “But then I thought, Well, nobody ever complained that Proust was more of the same.” Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z As a teenager, he said, he read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in a day and Marcel Proust’s monumental “Remembrance of Things Past” in a week. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Freud can be heady literature – like Ibsen coupled with Proust, plus a little Joyce thrown in. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Proust and I would resume our decades-long game of Monopoly, paused by me years ago for what was supposed to be a bathroom break. Don’t Fence Me In: The Comforts of a Sheep Video 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z I will always be a fan of Proust. David Sedaris Shows Us How His Mind Works 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Chantilly lace inserts and layers of organza were a more successful way to play with youthful elegance than Proust’s advice on color coding. Fashion Review: Dior?s Couture: True to Code 2012-01-23T18:05:24Z “I read there, for the first time, Proust, when I was fourteen—fourteen and fifteen.” César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The Proust in him is forever catching a glimpse of some thing, or some scent, that “unlocked my whole childhood in an instant.” Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z I might save that till after Proust entirely. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z For those of us who grew up on it, it’s strange how those atavistic memories of little girls saying, “How rude!” come rushing back to you like one of Proust’s madeleines. Fuller House: Tanner family nostalgia doesn't make redundant sitcom better 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The author of “Proust and the Squid” returns to the subject of technology’s effect on our brains and our reading habits. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Penguin Classics is releasing new editions of “Cane,” Gibran’s “The Prophet” and Proust’s “The Prisoner.” New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In the famous passage where he writes about the small scalloped cake named madeleine, Proust in his “Remembrance of Things Past” develops his theory of “affective memory.” Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Proust's commentary is a wonderful combination of deep respect and stern quarrelling. Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z So, Proust's narrator may not be gay – but that doesn't prevent him from being able to describe gay love. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z I’m thinking of writers like Proust and Henry James and Virginia Woolf, moving forward to, say, Thomas Bernhard. Garth Greenwell on writing sex in his novel 'What Belongs to You' and the queer literary tradition 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z You realize that Proust is kind of the gold standard for writers like that. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The sublime silliness of Monty Python has always had an intellectual underpinning; not many comedy troupes have sung about Heidegger and Descartes or joked about summarizing Proust. Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Puccini wanted to work with him, Proust admired him and Joyce said he was one of the three most talented writers of the 19th century, alongside Kipling and Tolstoy. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z We took a quick spin through the Los Angeles Times archives for this snapshot of Proust and his not-always assured literary legacy. Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Wright was a devoted reader of fine literature, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marcel Proust. Seattle arts patron Bagley Wright dies at 87 2011-07-20T06:31:04Z Pessoa is a genius and is there with Proust, Joyce, Montaigne and my all-time favorite, Thucydides. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z While deep in The Guermantes Way, didn’t I sometimes want to choke Proust for his tedious attention to some ridiculously small splinter of life? All writers should read Robert McKee 2013-04-10T20:47:00Z This being France, there’s wine, sex, cigarettes and talk of Proust. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Proust, who lived in his parents’ home until after his mother died, when he came into enough money to get his own place, moved into the building when he was thirty-five. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Soofi says that Proust is his favorite writer, and his project has, over the years, taken on an increasingly Proustian quality. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z But Proust also meant that Monet didn’t just idealize places; he wasn’t just a French weatherman with paints. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z I knew that I wanted to write about time because I had returned to Proust in my forties. Time lady 2011-04-01T08:13:48Z About a cherished odor from his childhood, Clive declares: “It was Ralph’s homemade pickled bologna, scarcely Proust’s madeleine, but then he was scarcely Proust.” Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z To knit together the elements of “In Search of Lost Time” Proust employed Wagner-style leitmotifs, such as a haunting musical phrase by his imaginary composer Vinteuil. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z A big chunk of “Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust is about childhood. A Conversation With the Top Prize Winner of Cannes 2010-05-23T19:04:00Z I lost about three years of my life to Proust. Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z And so I would like to say here, in this little blog about one's first attempt at reading Proust: you will either be smitten by him or not. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z There was Proust and Wagner and minimalism and raves and the Sanskrit epics. Musicians Redefine Long Play in 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Not exactly groundwork for a parallel career as a writer of short stories that register the influence of Hemingway, Kerouac and Carver and quote casually from Proust. Palo Alto by James Franco ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z I had surrendered myself to the large, general world of fiction, and at the time I’m speaking of loved certain writers extravagantly: Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Mann, Kafka and Proust most of all. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But she isn't the only one to say such things about Proust. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z “I was making a joke about Marcel Proust and memories!” Theater: Tassel-Twirling Gets a Feminist Touch 2011-11-08T13:30:07Z It is true that one can deduce a close circle of friends and family from the paintings, and that they exist somewhere between fact and fiction like the characters in Proust. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z "We didn't publish much in translation and I always wondered how Proust ended up on such a quintessentially English list." Christopher MacLehose: A life in publishing 2012-12-28T22:55:09Z The hotel attracted many famous guests, including Giuseppe Verdi and Marcel Proust. A Literary Leap to Give Tourists Pause 2010-06-18T16:17:00Z His heroes were not religious figures, but literary and political thinkers such as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Karl Marx. Eminent man of letters George Steiner dead at age 90 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z He takes note of the elite club of writers, including Borges, Marcel Proust and Lillian Hellman, whose maids have written books about them. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z Shortly before he died, "at a moment when he felt the end was close", he scribbled a message in a biography of Proust. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z If Beckett is right, then Proust has repudiated what some maintain is the novel’s most honored function, the moral education of the reader. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Proust described it perfectly as “that fertile miracle of communication that takes effect in solitude.” Anna Parini’s “A New Leaf” 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z What should be light and spongy are leaden and dry — certainly nothing for Proust to write home about. Review | Primrose pours on the charm in Brookland 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Cops caught up with him as he was running—probably from tear gas, though he told the Nation interviewer, “Surely, I was in a rush to get home and keep reading Proust.” César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Proust, we now realize, was, along with everything else, a neighbor, too. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Yet Musil went on to write “The Man Without Qualities,” an achievement that ranked him with Proust and Joyce. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z If Proust had followed his trigger right out of the plot and into the kitchen, if, in addition to telling you what the cookie evoked, he told you the recipe. A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z That same year, Ray photographed Marcel Proust on his deathbed. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z I love British chick lit and I love Proust. Up Close: Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan 2011-10-12T22:41:28Z He's probably best known for his 1999 Proust adaptation, "Time Regained." 'Mysteries of Lisbon': a 257-minute revelation 2011-09-29T20:02:05Z Proust, known to be terribly ill as he works feverishly to finish his 12-volume magnum opus? The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z Even Proust fought a duel, after a journalist hinted at a homosexual relationship, but no harm came of it since both participants deliberately fired in the air. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z A music major, she stayed up all night discussing Schumpeter, Keynes and Proust with her classmates. The Independent Women of Sweet Briar 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Enticing as the thought of spying on other people’s mental lives may be, there are few Prousts out there whose cranial worlds would be worth raiding. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z Or a page from Marcel Proust’s seven-volume opus, “In Search of Lost Time,” whose words — scratched out and written over — bear witness to his hesitations, uncertainty and pursuit of excellence? A Vault Holding Long-Hidden French Treasures Swings Open Its Doors 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z George Painter, a biographer of Proust, once compared the experience of reading Violet Trefusis’s prose to “being driven at 90 m.p.h. over an ice field, by a driver who knows how to skid for fun.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z I always remember Proust: All personality is a social construction. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A first edition of the Sodom and Gomorrah section from Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.” Larry Kramer Wishes More People Wrote About Gay History 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Like Proust, who’s among his favorite writers, he will not be hurried. A Survivor Recalls the Charlie Hebdo Massacre and a Long Road to Recovery 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z That celebrated quote from Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” speaks to the magic of maps. Maps new and old offer shelter-in-place globe-trotting — and lessons in human history 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Through the connections of the Polish pianist Maria Godebska-Sert, he was ushered into Parisian artistic and literary circles, where he met several friends of Proust, who had recently died. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z A wag on the Proust fan site provides the wonderfully concise: "Marcel." Reading group: Can you summarise Proust? 2013-02-12T14:58:22Z The ineffable magic that occurs when gorgeous molecules of smell and taste stimulate our pleasure receptors is best left to imagination — unless, that is, you are Proust. A Scented Diary of a Lockdown 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Streep is being interviewed by James Lipton for "Inside the Actors Studio," and she's answering the questions from the Proust Questionnaire. A moment with Meryl 2011-12-05T20:08:06Z She grew up in Iraq, where she struggled through Dickens and Proust in an effort to impress her father. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z A meditation on the northern lights detours into musings on Proust and Pascal. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z If this strikes you as a whimsical project then you must also dismiss Cézanne and Proust. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z Why criticise Proust for what he hasn't written when he's written so much – so very much – for which we can praise him? Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z Mr. Denk, who calls himself “a real Francophile,” is soft-spoken but intense, his conversation peppered with references to various “obsessions”: coffee, Ives, Bach, Proust, Baudelaire and Emerson. Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z I will occasionally read classics — Dickens, Tolstoy, Proust — or terrific contemporary novelists. Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Berge opens their sumptuous homes in Marakkech and Normandy, where each room is named after a character from a Proust novel. 'L'Amour Fou' centers on the partner of late designer Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T15:07:04Z In 1993, Vanity Fair began running its regular back-page Proust Questionnaire feature, thus introducing the format to an American mass audience. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In one house, Mr. Bergé recalls, all the rooms were named after characters from Proust. | 'L?Amour Fou': The Passions and Demons of Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-12T21:23:04Z Standard classics – Proust, Dickens, the Brontës – and art books occupy the shelves. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z We are aware that, given that Joyce and Proust had their detractors, so may we. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z He is not primarily an intellectual like Proust or Tolstoy, deeply interested in abstract ideas, but he is much warmer, sensitive and compassionate. Sylvia Nasar: By the Book 2012-08-10T14:14:08Z One that sent Mr. Bolton not just into his own storage room but down a conceptual wormhole: through Charles Baudelaire and the early-20th-century philosopher Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein and Walter Benjamin, Proust and Virginia Woolf. How Memory Maps Fashion’s Future 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Even Marcel Proust was recently written off by Karl as “the son of a concierge looking at society people”. Kim Kardashian, the Pink Panthers and the missing jewels 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Where Proust dedicated himself to the “the porousness of boundaries between self and other,” Rose examines the porousness of the self and the state. A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The extreme class consciousness of characters in Proust or, for that matter, in Evelyn Waugh and Louis Auchincloss also tells us a great deal about the inner lives deformed by rigidly hierarchical societies. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z “In his masterpiece ‘Remembrance of Things Past,’ Marcel Proust illustrated this beautifully: the protagonist eats a small cake he enjoys as a child and memories come flooding back.” Books of The Times: Her Life Since Then: Different Views of It 2011-08-18T23:00:12Z She was also considered a serious artist: “Colette is the greatest living French writer of fiction,” Katherine Anne Porter wrote in The New York Times in 1951, “and was while Gide and Proust still lived.” The Essential Colette 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z He drags in all the experts — from Proust to Hawking — and tries to be an honest broker about the answers to questions we can’t really answer. Just a Few Billion Years Left to Go 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Born in Budapest in 1942, Mr. Nadas is something of a literary superstar in Hungary, one who has earned comparisons to Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust. Books of The Times: ?Parallel Stories,? a Novel by Peter Nadas - Review 2011-12-04T21:04:45Z Reading Proust, one is almost by definition declaring one's readiness to dispense with the illusion of narrative in one's concept of living. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard – review 2013-04-12T07:13:00Z Not everything in Mr. Eleey’s show is as quiet as Proust would have liked, but taken together, the ensemble provides solace. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z A crayon image of Nazi fighter planes now has a quotation from Marcel Proust. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Forty-some years ago, having just read James Joyce's Ulysses, I decided to tackle Proust. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Everything else, in the rich and varied universe Proust has invented, exists only as the stage for these scattered lightning-flashes. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z In the long run we are all dead, and none of us is Proust. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z It was, according to some of those present – who included Marcel Proust, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy – the sound of derisive laughter. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z Can we blame Proust for not coming out in public, living when he did? Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z Think Proust, wrapped up in three and a half minutes. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z This, he claimed, was what kept aborting his attempt to be the American Proust. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” and the first English translation of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” came out that year. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z To sustain her through this period of isolation she is given an apartment, groceries and the entirety of Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.” Books of The Times: ?1Q84? by Haruki Murakami - Review 2011-11-09T19:28:08Z Or ironising Proust, whom a vigilant desire for possession and knowledge imprisons in a pendulum that swings between suffering and boredom? Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z As Proust said, the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Our ‘sexperiment’ and other methods of improving our sex life 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z This move spares Czapski the accusation that he was merely escaping into the sensory, bourgeois richness of Proust’s art. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Marcel Proust, whose musings on memory permeate his novel “In Search of Lost Time,” made a habit of soliciting photographs of his acquaintances. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Means, like Proust or Woolf or Munro, is a time artist. A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z Far from being indulgent and indolent, the practice may spark creativity and productivity – memorably, Samuel Johnson, Edith Wharton, Marcel Proust, Florence Nightingale and William Wordsworth all worked from bed. Why you shouldn’t work from bed (and a guide to doing it anyway) 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z And if, as Hoppo tells us, homosexual love is discussed more and more frankly later on, why would Proust feel the need to employ the kind of codes that Marya50 has cracked for us here? Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z Over a century ago, Proust inhaled a fresh-baked madeleine that triggered vivid memories of his childhood, describing the experience in “Swann’s Way,” the first of seven volumes that compose “In Search of Lost Time.” Aromas can evoke beloved journeys — or voyages not yet taken 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z But Joyce and Proust, on whom Foley spends much time meditating in these pages, are not the only high priests of low life. Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z Since then, he has gone on to write dozens of books, frequently touching on the Nazi occupation of France, and has drawn comparisons to renowned countryman Marcel Proust. Why You Haven't Heard of Patrick Modiano, Winner of the Nobel in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The character: Frank Ginsberg, a heartbroken Proust scholar unwillingly dragged along on a road-trip to his niece's beauty contest after a failed suicide attempt. America's funniest man 2010-08-21T23:08:00Z Proust refers a lot to clothes and décor and food. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z No one is denying Céline's talent as one of the greatest French writers of the 20th century – probably the greatest, with Proust. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z She wrote her dissertation on translations of Proust. Barbara Harlow, Scholar on Perils of Resistance Writing, Dies at 68 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In another Proust asks “Do you like truffles?” and Joyce replies, “Yes, I do.” Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z And as a writer he found fame not in his own right—by his own admission, he was a second-rate poet—but as a translator of Marcel Proust. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Berge was the first to celebrate the document that would soon become known as “le questionnaire de Proust.” How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Inspired by Proust’s intimate epic, “In Search of Lost Time,” and drawing on his own past and friendships, Powell began composing his “Dance” series. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In Europe, his elegant, ruminative style — often compared to Proust or Henry James — has led to a towering literary reputation. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A minute later, she looked up and, apropos of nothing, said, “I love Beyoncé,” to the room, which included two actresses, also checking e-mail on the bed, and another actress reading Proust. Gaby Hoffmann, the Eloise of the Chelsea Hotel 2013-07-08T18:56:11Z He added: "When I'm done, in about 10, 15 years, it will cover all the years of my life, like Proust, but done on the run, a Running Proust." Visions of Jack Kerouac ... in an epic 13 volumes 2013-07-24T18:00:01Z Which Lawrence character finds Proust boring and self-important? How much do you know about DH Lawrence? 2013-05-29T09:54:41Z There’s a section devoted to Proust and another to slavery. A first-timer’s fresh view of Vancouver, B.C. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect,” Marcel Proust once wrote. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “Now that Gustave Moreau is dead, his house is to become a museum,” Proust wrote, upon hearing the news of the bequest by the painter he had so frequently mentioned in his novels. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z I promised myself that I wouldn’t mention Marcel Proust, but there was no way around it. If you’re mad about madeleines, have we got a recipe — and tips — for you 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Proust is making things up, changing them, disguising them, confusing them, adding extra elements to them – and he's perfectly within his rights to do so. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z A Century of Proust Staffers from The Times and other writers spend a week celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Swann’s Way,” the first volume of Proust’s masterwork “In Search of Lost Time.” Books - Sunday Book Review - The New York Times 2013-05-31T18:34:44Z The smell and taste of things, Proust wrote, hold in the “tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection.” My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The seven volumes of Proust took Genis a year to finish. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z If he’d built his world around tragedy Wodehouse would have the standing of a Proust or a Faulkner. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z In 2012, the author of “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” was accused of stealing from multiple sources and fabricating Bob Dylan quotes in his book “Imagine,” which was pulled from shelves. A lesson in plagiarism for Melania Trump 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z You can’t get more pretentious than Proust – so I though, This is really setting me up for some slapback from the press. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z It’s the musical version of Proust’s Madeleine–summoning a set of associations linked inextricably to sex. How sex got its soundtrack: The X-rated history of “boom-chicka-wah-wah” 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Trapped in a Jungle and a State of Mind Marcel Proust opened “Swann’s Way,” in 1913, with reflections that occurred at the edge of sleep. Movie Review: ‘Almayer’s Folly,’ Directed by Chantal Akerman 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z The Library of America and its French counterpart, the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, both specialize in such “established” editions of canonical authors—Faulkner, Bellow, Roth, Cather, Fitzgerald; Proust, Camus, Pascal, Verlaine, Colette. The Clunky Memoir That Became “Little House on the Prairie” 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s always refreshing to see musicians interacting with other mediums, and for Kolesnikov this isn’t even a first: He has also put together a recital inspired by Proust. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The writer who, in foolish old age, would attack Proust, launches on a gorgeous Proustian reclamation: The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Can we blame Proust for presenting this love so negatively? Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z He took the self-administered Proust Questionnaire for Vanity Fair and wrote that the greatest love of his life was “cats” and his favorite journey was “looking out the window.” Edward Gorey Was Eerily Prescient 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z And often lengthiness can be the absolute soul of wit, as in Proust or Dickens. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Born into the Parisian beau monde, as a child Roussel had Marcel Proust for a neighbor; as an adult, he befriended Jean Cocteau when the two were patients in drug rehab. Review: The Writer Raymond Roussel and His Legacy, at Galerie Buchholz 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. von Trier gave up drinking after shooting “Melancholia” and has taken up what he called the “very bourgeois” pursuit of reading and is working his way through Proust. Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z “Almayer’s Folly” is not friendly terrain to traverse; like some sinister version of Proust, it is a prolonged fever dream that ultimately yields madness. Movie Review: ‘Almayer’s Folly,’ Directed by Chantal Akerman 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z Despite the poverty of their conditions, the assembled company was highly educated, which allowed Czapski to wander from Proust’s translations of Ruskin to the influence of Latin on his syntax. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Openly gay writer Marcel Proust didn’t introduce the concept into French literature — in his expansive “In Search of Lost Time” series — until 1913. Caught in a bad bromance? We should be encouraging man hugs, not mocking them 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z A long chapter describes the Schiffs’ friendship with Proust, which unfolded almost entirely through letters, an art form lost today. ‘Sidney and Violet’: inside a charmed literary circle 2013-08-28T22:24:55Z Indeed, Man Ray’s deathbed photograph of Marcel Proust makes a fitting bookend to Nadar’s of Victor Hugo. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Flaubert may be “except for Proust … the true artist of the novel,” but Bloom is more interested in Emma Bovary herself than in her novel. Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z He enlisted the example of his own children’s reading habits, and those of his young students, to argue that there is little evidence to suggest that readers will make progress “upward from pulp to Proust.” The Percy Jackson Problem 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z He was overwhelmed and wrote to Proust, apologising for the rejection, calling it "the gravest error" and "one of the most burning regrets, remorses, of my life." Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z The most cerebral of writers, Proust seeks finally to free himself, and us, from the shackles of intellect and reason. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Certainly it is vital to Proust’s, and his condolence note is also a kind of confession. The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “I like to believe that we all passed the language hurdle with Lewis Carroll’s help,” he wrote in 1990, “though, as I recall, Proust, not Carroll, took pride of place on the examination.” Morton Cohen, Scholar of Lewis Carroll and His Wonderland, Dies at 96 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Proust wrote, “it accomplishes its work in silence.” Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z The book was inspired, the author said, by Proust and The Sopranos. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects ? and alligators 2011-03-16T00:05:01Z Between screenings, follow the celebrities to the classic Grand Hôtel Cabourg, a 1907-vintage landmark famously patronized by the author Marcel Proust, that hosts interviews with actors. 10 Festive Hotels in Europe 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But Proust holds a special place in my life. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Proust, we are told, dressed with care but was not really elegant. In the Book ‘The Killer Detail,’ Considering the Essence of Chic 2013-12-06T23:33:21Z On a whim, I had jotted down a few questions from the Proust questionnaire. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Proust famously determined to transform a life into a book, and so too, it seems, did Kafka. Rereading: John Banville on Kafka's other trial 2011-01-14T14:18:55Z It displays highlights from a collection compiled by the Brazilian author and publisher, among them letters from Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Michelangelo and Marcel Proust. Summer art exhibition highlights around the nation 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z And if you go to the seaside, you must read the passages that Marcel Proust devotes in “In Search of Lost Time” to Balbec, an imaginary town inspired by Cabourg. Read Your Way Through Paris 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Proust also wrote that his pictures “make us adore a field, a sky, a beach, a river as though these were shrines which we long to visit, shrines we lose faith in when we see.” Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z With no access to physical books in the camp, the lectures are naturally preoccupied with the almost Proustian exercise of remembering Proust’s text. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Yet all this only touches the outskirts of Proust’s Herculean purpose. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z The young Proust wrote his answers in French, though Faure’s album, a British import, was printed in English. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Who ever suspected that Proust’s famous madeleine almost lost out to a plain slice of toast? 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It's a quarter of a century since I read Proust so I'm going to tackle him again, starting with the translation of Swann's Way by one of my favourite writers, Lydia Davis. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Woolf bucks the flu, sublimates her class disdain for Joyce, channels Proust, publishes “Jacob’s Room” and commences work on “Mrs. Dalloway.” 1922: The Year That Transformed English Literature 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z On most days, Patrick Lambert, the owner, will be there, playing chess with a friend or maybe reading Proust. | Adventures in Vintage 2011-07-27T15:00:04Z But a more frequent unnamed figure in fiction today is a relative of the strange, spectral speakers in such books as Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” or Marguerite Duras’s “The Lover.” The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z And so in a sense are Proust’s men and women, whose will is blind and hard, but never self-conscious, never abolished in the pure perception of a pure subject. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Proust might not have agreed with this evaluation, but he understood that the descriptive terms can be one and the same. Art Review: Odd Faces, Strange in Their Day, but Familiar in Our Time 2010-09-16T22:37:00Z I read, or at least passed my eyes over, the first volume of Proust in French. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z Our hostess asked Proust if he had read such and such a piece of ‘Ulysses.’ Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z This bit of literary advice is coherent with Proust's general closetedness – a secretiveness that was all the more absurd since everyone near him knew he was gay. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z No, we prefer Proust in the Vintage not the Penguin translation. Share your literary humiliations 2010-07-19T12:26:00Z And then there’s the other perk of Blue Hill’s remoteness: withdrawal into the peninsular equivalent of Proust’s cork-lined bedroom, sealed off from the frenzy of mainstream America. Blue Hill, a Literary Enclave, Grows in Downeast Maine 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Glazer said Friday that the publisher will continue to sell a third Lehrer book, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist," which was released in 2007. 2nd Jonah Lehrer book being pulled from shelves 2013-03-02T02:55:08Z Various passages mention Coleridge, Kafka, Proust, Freud and Lawrence, and at times O’Connor seems to be seeking a patron saint of literature. Flannery O’Connor Prayer Journal Published 2013-11-13T19:04:02Z But I expect most of my time will be spent basking in Sodom and Gomorrah, book four of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Proust's conscientious pursuit of sensation in all its subtle detail, as though memory is as much a moral as a sensory obligation, is not Céline's way. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z His poetry collection “Fellow Feelings” was a tribute to such artists as Walt Whitman and Marcel Proust and his later works included several elegies for friends who died of AIDS. Richard Howard, acclaimed poet-translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The first is a bookstore, Albertine, named after the elusive love object of Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.” French Embassy Starts a Festival and Albertine, a Bookstore 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Eco viewed the project as the inverse of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past," in which memory propels the narrative. With 'Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,' Umberto Eco considers identity 2005-06-13T04:00:00Z In a third Joyce recalls: “Our talk consisted solely of the word ‘No.’ Proust asked me if I knew the duc de so-and-so. Books of The Times: ‘Hello Goodbye Hello,’ by Craig Brown 2012-08-05T20:56:23Z Proust can have his cake and eat it. Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z His France was the France of la Belle Époque; of the Eiffel Tower, the Folies Bergère and the Dreyfus Affair; of Impressionist painting, Mallarmé’s poetry and the novels of Proust. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z So I find that I am writing a book about memory haunted by Proust. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Ms. Stein met Bellamy in 1986 — 12 years before he died in bed, apparently while reading Proust, at 70 — when she curated a Franz Kline exhibition. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z I don’t know that I see Proust as dwelling in the past as much as digging into the present. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z What she is seeking can only be delivered, as Proust would define in Swann's Way 30 years later, by the action of involuntary memory. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z Why shouldn't Proust make his narrator, Marcel, straight? Reading group: how LGBT is Proust? 2013-02-20T12:01:01Z The preening and self-consciously decadent elite were never the whole of Paris, and with few exceptions — Proust and Wilde being the obvious ones — didn’t leave much of interest behind. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The novel’s narrator addresses us with the brazen directness of our own moment’s memoirists, though Proust is strangely self-effacing, even his terrifying omniscience grounded in his repeated insistence that he really knows nothing at all. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Gardner Smith, a precocious student of literature, read the same novelists as most aspiring writers in mid-century America: Hemingway and Faulkner, Proust and Dostoyevsky. “How Does It Feel To Be a White Man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z She compiled 19 resolutions for 2019, including reading Proust, developing merchandise and learning to play the ukulele. Gretchen Rubin actually appears to have it all. But is that the kind of happiness guru we want? 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Luhrmann is a cheerful vulgarian and his movie suggestive of Proust directed by Michael Winner. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z Marcel Proust, he noted, spent summers at the Grand Hôtel, the vast century-old, Belle Époque structure that still lords over Cabourg’s expansive beach, known for its sublime sunsets at low tide. Visiting France?s C?te Fleurie 2010-08-06T15:19:00Z But one example is Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” Hillary Rodham Clinton: By the Book 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z He never musters a dense argument for Updike’s importance, which would require him to triangulate not just among Bellow and Roth and Mailer but among Proust and Hawthorne and Nabokov and Henry James. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z At one point Guadagnino stands outside his former house and inhales the smells from the open window – humidity, old grapes – like Proust with his madeleine. The show the military couldn't stop: Luca Guadagnino on We Are Who We Are 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z I read 'Swann's Way' and with each page wondered where Proust was taking me. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Also he introduced me to someone called Caroline Weber, whose book about Marie Antoinette, “Queen of Fashion,” I’d enjoyed 10 years ago and who’s recently been a guiding light in my pursuit of Proust. Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp,” by the Polish painter, intellectual and writer Jozef Czapski, represents a unique contribution to this tradition of last books. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z In prison, time was both an enemy and a resource, and Genis said that Proust convinced him that the only way to exist outside of it, however briefly, was to become a writer himself. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z What a pair they made: Marcel Proust and his Papa. A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z No, Proust says: "thought is falsified when it becomes spoken thought". Et cetera: non-fiction roundup ? reviews 2011-07-22T21:55:03Z While being treated at a Swiss sanitarium, she became intimate with the works of André Gide, Marcel Proust, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z It chronicles the life of a gorgeous, ageless French model, Guy, whose “more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, ‘our young man.’ Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The current special exhibition “Female Painters and Salons During the Time of Proust,” which features works by female painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, runs through June 6. What to Pair With Monet? Try Classical Music. 2010-04-18T10:00:00Z There’s a great book my friend gave me, “How Proust Can Change Your Life.” The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z He translated Proust in cafés surrounded by raucous Italians or on holiday with friends, reading portions of the text aloud to them and mulling over his exact words. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z All I could do was read Proust and weep on the couch. The houseguest: ‘I need sex, two, three times a day’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Or that her verse was so remarkable that Paul could plausibly declare that “Ida Perkins is to American poetry as Proust is to the French novel.” Review: In ‘Muse,’ the Publisher Jonathan Galassi Writes What He Knows 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z I chose that Proust passage as the epigraph to my novel. This Week in Fiction: Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z "Pittsburgh" was an homage to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Phillip Roth and Marcel Proust and a part of literature that he also loved. Chabon ties it all together in 'Telegraph Avenue' 2012-12-13T17:42:53Z “We would all like that to be Proust,” he said. Is This Really Marcel Proust in a Movie? 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z These days Proust is known as a genius, the author of the brilliant, mammoth novel, known as both "Remembrance of Things Past" and "In Search of Lost Time." Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis’ Like moths to the light, the great writers of the early 20th century seemed drawn to Sydney and Violet Schiff’s orbit. ‘Sidney and Violet’: inside a charmed literary circle 2013-08-28T22:24:55Z Not that “involuntary memory,” the morsel of tasted cake, makes Proust the master of reality. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Nigella Lawson, who was briefly drafted in to support his theory, alleged that for Britons the boiled sweet was the equivalent of Proust's madeleine. TV review: Richard Hammond's Miracles of Nature; Nigel Slater: Life is Sweets 2012-11-05T22:00:01Z He’s like Proust’s narrator except he’s languishing with intent to die. Chicken with Plums: Savory and Sweet Film From the Creators of Persepolis 2012-08-16T12:00:32Z Adrien Proust was the renowned epidemiologist who pioneered the use of the cordon sanitaire to sequester infectious disease — the 19th century’s version of social distancing. A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Before each session, he read aloud from Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” or C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation of Proust. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z But where a specific loose Venetian paving stone might reveal the past to Proust, everything in Rome means something to Jep. Cannes 2013: The Great Beauty - first look review 2013-05-21T07:10:06Z For instance, George Eliot and Marcel Proust are writers who understand politics, the history of the arts, moral philosophy but can render the force of the passions. Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’ 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z I would recommend everybody to spend a summer reading Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past,” also the president and the prime minister. Karl Ove Knausgaard: By the Book 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z In a series of nonfiction books since then, he has acted as a kind of cosmopolitan Yoda, dispensing gnomic wisdom about Proust, travel, architecture, work and religion. Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z He broaches the topic by evoking the death scene of the writer Bergotte, in a section of “Remembrance” that Proust was editing in the final weeks before he died. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z One wonders if Fernandez had read the apocryphal “letter” from Marcel Proust to the Ritz, which was presented as part of its 100th anniversary celebration in 1998. | Closin' Up the Ritz 2011-10-31T22:23:54Z That third volume of Proust, and maybe more le Carré. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Had the publishers wanted to keep the Proust allusion they might have chosen something along the order of “In Search of Lost Meals.” Iconic Food Writers Toppled Off Their Pedestals 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z The women can spend the time reading Proust in French while saving up to go to Harvard Law School. Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt – review 2012-10-03T07:00:03Z If you're anything like me, you've probably always thought it might be interesting to read Proust – and then pulled back in terror at the sheer scale of the prospect. February's reading group: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust 2013-01-30T16:20:24Z Even Proust’s narrator dips his madeleine into an infusion made from the tree’s flowers. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The novelist and Proust scholar, whose new book is “Find Me,” calls “Mrs. Dalloway” an “overrated novel that I don’t find particularly gripping or interesting. I’m not even sure it’s well written.” André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It’s the sort of book that Proust might have written had Proust become distracted by the madeleine. A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z In fact, it is entirely a phenomenon of the photographic age, already underway when he was rediscovered by writers such as Thoré and Proust. Johannes Vermeer is a pearl – not a diamond 2013-06-20T13:56:50Z The long essay on Proust and France’s Dreyfus Affair — the notorious case of a Jewish army officer framed for espionage — emphasizes a fin-de-siècle France as politically riven as the United States is now. ‘Truth thrives in the margins’ and other insights from a master essayist 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Joyce was roused to speak with Proust, but the conversation was absurd. Salute Diaghilev 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z “On the threshold of love we are bashful,” Proust noted. Critic?s Notebook: Paris Rediscovers Monet?s Magic at Grand Palais 2010-10-05T01:41:00Z When his professor asks who in class has read Proust, Julio sits unresponsive until, with a start, he realizes that almost all the other students — liars! — are raising their hands. Movie Review: ?Bons?i,? From Chile, Directed by Cristi?n Jim?nez 2012-05-10T22:15:46Z The essayist and novelist David Shields, whose forthcoming book is “The Very Last Interview,” used to idolize Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z I get it: You’re reading Proust and I’m reading “Starship Troopers,” and I’m very impressed. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Yurick had read widely in his youth, absorbing Proust, Camus and Classic Comics. Sol Yurick, Novelist, Dies at 87 2013-01-09T15:49:27Z But there are exuberant economies in writing too, as Davis says of Henry James and Marcel Proust, whose books seem baggy only if you’re not concentrating. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z He makes the aged Proust a character and embeds the writing of the novel into the action that it describes—and the inner life that it captures. Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z She also translates French literature, and it is the time she spent wrestling with Proust that she holds responsible for turning her into a miniaturist. Lydia Davis: 'My style is a reaction to Proust's long sentences' 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z They viewed themselves, and were praised by Proust and others, as the exotic golden birds of French high society. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Wisely, I didn't take Proust this time, so I can still only say, as Sam Goldwyn did of The Wizard of Oz, that I've read part of A la recherche all the way through. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z Javier Marías, a Spanish novelist whose elegant style and intricate plots centered on espionage, murder and betrayal won him comparisons to Marcel Proust and Ian Fleming, died on Sunday at his home in Madrid. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Several essays describe her experience working on Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way.” 16 New Books Coming in November 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In graduate school, I thought Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” was the greatest book ever written. Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Proust was a huge fan of linden, or lime blossom, tea. How to grow your own medicine cabinet | Alys Fowler 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z She did extend Proust an invitation to her daughter’s wedding; the church was only a few blocks away from his apartment, on the Boulevard Haussmann. Marcel Proust, Caught on Film 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Proust's series captured the experimentation of modernism while drawing upon the realism that defined mid-nineteenth-century fiction. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z Oliver then lists the many culture icons France has going for it from fine wine to madeleines to Marcel Proust. Watch John Oliver Say What We're All Thinking About the Paris Attackers 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z "Proust Belongs to You," one French literary magazine declares. Happy birthday Marcel Proust! 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z As the sinuous sentences unfold, aphorism following insight, metaphor converted into syllogism, we realize Proust is as rigorous a thinker as he is fabulist, heir to Descartes, companion to Freud. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z In an interview, Mr. Lupa said that a student production by Mr. Warlikowski, drawn from the writings of Proust, marked him as a rising talent. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But don't expect to necessarily 'get Proust' by just reading the first volume. Reading group: Bogged down on Swann's Way? 2013-02-07T14:01:15Z Mine will be the Summer of Proust, as I work my way through “In Search of Lost Time.” Your Intentions for the Summer 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Proust and Woolf also wrote works focused on the inner life rather than the outside event, and Woolf was also a seminal feminist writer. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Proust had his teaspoons and his madeleines; if I had to elect one sensory item by which to remember my youth, it would have to be a sculptural, ludicrously fragrant splatter of dog waste. What I Learned Dogsitting for New York City’s Opulent Elite 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z “Like many people during the pandemic, I was spending long afternoons with Proust and Melville, Milton and others. So, suddenly, they were the ones whispering in my ear,” he says. How COVID lockdowns drove travel writer Pico Iyer to think of paradise 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris draws many visitors to the tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust and other celebrated artists buried there. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris draws many visitors to the tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust and other celebrated artists buried there. Your Thursday Briefing: The U.S. Requires Covid Tests for Travelers From China 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Today, some 1.3 million individuals, including Proust, Chopin and Sarah Bernhardt, are interred there, a figure equal to about half of Paris’s living population. Wild and Wilde: At Celebrity Cemetery, Nature Takes on Starring Role 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z During the war in Bosnia, I worked my way through the seven volumes of Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time." Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z One hundred years ago, on Nov. 18, 1922, Marcel Proust breathed his last in Paris at age 51. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z This past week, I reread “Swann in Love” in a new translation by Lucy Raitz, advertised by Pushkin Press as a “stand-alone novella” and the “perfect introduction to Proust.” Review | If you can’t handle 1.5 million words of Proust, try ‘Swann in Love’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Winning the top Powerball prize is not like being hit by lightning; it’s more like being hit by lightning while reading Proust at Windsor Castle. Opinion | $1.6 billion Powerball pot. Who wins and who pays? It’s murky. 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z That style mostly always worked, giving Mr. Marías a reputation as a virtuoso storyteller whose canvas was much larger than the story itself in the mold of Marcel Proust or Herman Melville. Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The specter of death and the expiring world of La Belle Époque haunts Proust's work. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Proust’s death was an ending but not the end. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, Odette seems utterly taken with him, and, as Proust notes, “feeling that one already possesses the heart of a woman can be enough to make one fall in love.” Review | If you can’t handle 1.5 million words of Proust, try ‘Swann in Love’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Decades later, Davenport-Hines set out to write about Proust and the soiree. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z But we didn’t wander in here expecting Proust. Review | James Patterson’s ‘Blowback’ asks, ‘What if we elected a psychopath?’ 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z He wrote it as he was dying; in fact, Proust was making corrections to the manuscript the night before his death in his hermetically sealed, cork-lined bedroom in Paris. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z In a world hellbent on decimating our attention spans, however, immersion in Proust offers significant spiritual benefits. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z “I had written a book,” he wrote, “that was compared with Henry James and Marcel Proust and, headier still, was labeled decadent.” Opinion | Frederick Buechner was a writer tuned in to the frequency of grace 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Proust sat next to Stravinsky and tried to strike up a conversation about classical music. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Dalton knew of the experiments of French chemist Joseph Proust, who demonstrated that all samples of a pure compound contain the same elements in the same proportion by mass. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Proust gave me the words to describe aspects of the human condition I knew instinctively, but had trouble articulating. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Proust reveals their natures only gradually: They change, and thus the full effect of “In Search” can only be felt cumulatively. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The documentary “Le Temps Perdu” depicts a group of older readers in Buenos Aires who gather to savor Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Joyce eventually woke up and chatted with Proust. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Dalton also used data from Proust, as well as results from his own experiments, to formulate another interesting law. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Those who see in his work a retreat from the world are poor readers of Proust. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z To read Proust is to think things through; his sentences stretch out like cognitive yoga poses. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z She spent the ride bent over a copy of Proust. Perspective | Read all about it: Planes, trains, automobiles — and books 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z In response, the Irishman showed him the same courtesy: “I have never read your works, Mr. Proust.” When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The program makes some supplies available, and additional creative inspiration is on offer in the museum-rich city, and in nearby Padua, where Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, beloved by both John Ruskin and Marcel Proust, await. A Brief Guide to the Wide, Wild World of Art Schools and Residencies 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z She had become "infinitely pathetic; she, who had been unfaithful to Swann and to everybody, found now that the entire universe was unfaithful to her," Proust writes of Odette. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z But be not intimidated: Your concentration soon adapts, bending like a sunflower toward Proust’s illumination. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Like all liberal arts students, Selin is crowded by books — from Frog and Toad to Freud and Proust — offering different ways of being. Review | ‘The Idiot’ sequel, ‘Either/Or,’ is the best kind of follow-up 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Joyce eventually woke up and chatted with Proust. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z For more than 10 years, Trong Gia Nguyen, an artist in Brooklyn, has been writing every word of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” on grains of rice. It’s not so much about the size, it’s the saturation "For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike," Proust notes. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “The World According to Proust,” by Joshua Landy, is a friendly introduction to “In Search,” even if Landy’s efforts to make him approachable occasionally come off as condescending. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z When Proust bit into his madeleine, it wasn’t because he had the anniversary of his first cookie-nosh jotted down on the calendar. Perspective | 20 ways of thinking about nostalgia from a year of backward listening 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Behind Proust were his excitable fans, behind Joyce his. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Reading a later volume of Proust amid a breakup, I filled the margins with uncomfortable ellipses, onomatopoetic groans and little else. How Scribbling in the Margins Transformed My Reading 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z This denial of death, and our impending mortality, is captured by Proust when Swann informs the Duke and Duchesse de Guermantes that he is ill and has only three or four months to live. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Prendergast’s “Living and Dying With Marcel Proust” is an excellent close reading aimed more squarely at the initiated. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Her approach is discursive, yet precise — Proust kneeling bedside on the carpet of a dorm. A Brief Introduction to Philosophy (Through a Certain Sex Act) 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Proust opened up about “a malady of the liver” that plagued him. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The son of an antifascist university professor, Calasso was born in Florence in 1941 and quickly displayed a prodigious literary intelligence, reading Proust’s monumental ‘In Search of Lost Time’ at the age of 13. Roberto Calasso, titan of Italian literature, dies 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The external world of the five senses in Proust is always defeated by the inner world constructed by imagination. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z A century has passed but Proust lives on, out of time, in his eternal work. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z However, critics claimed its author, Dylan, had cribbed certain passages from Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Time magazine and even a guide to New Orleans. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z However, according to Violet Schiff, the soiree came to an end when Proust invited her and her husband back to his flat for a nightcap. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “I think he’s got to the fourth chapter of Proust’s A la Recherche de Temps Perdu.” Brentford v Bournemouth: Championship play-off semi-final, second leg – live! 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Proust chronicles the poisonous effects of World War I on French society, embodied by the hostess Mme. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z To read Proust is to glimpse how one might recover from one’s own life — with all its pain and boredom and frustration — something of immeasurable value: nothing less than meaning. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The media trained us to wonder annually why he didn’t win the Nobel Prize, even though the snub put him in the company of Tolstoy, Proust, Borges, Nabokov, Joyce and Woolf. If 'Philip Roth: The Biography' leaves you hating its subject, thank Blake Bailey 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Proust had a visceral aversion to fresh air and was convinced inhaling it would make him sick. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z She found an escape in books, devouring the works of Marcel Proust, Charles Baudelaire and other beloved French writers. A proudly feminist lawyer takes a lead role fighting sexual violence in France 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z "For the idiocy of the times caused people to pride themselves on using the expressions of the times," Proust notes. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Though Proust is unignorable, he’s often neglected; his reputation for being difficult can put off even ambitious readers. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Benjamin litters the novel with heaps of literary allusions and references: Austen, Beckett, Proust, Gogol, Eliot, Rand, Melville, Shakespeare, Stein, Frost, Nabokov, Updike, Wallace, Flaubert — this is a partial list. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Joyce then tried to score an invitation to Proust’s, but he was sent home. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The hell with Proust and his madeleines; for me, the pleasantly stinging taste of excess salt and weird yellow chemicals brings memories and joy. Dinner at a Movie cracks the code for movie-theater-style popcorn at home — and paired with The Rock, it is perfection 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Proust, when he writes about antisemitism, makes an important distinction between vice and crime, a distinction quoted at length by Hannah Arendt in "The Origins of Totalitarianism." Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Edith Wharton said that Proust gave Henry James “his last, and one of his strongest, artistic emotions.” Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Besides rereading Marcel Proust, he’s recently read Gustave Flaubert’s novel “Sentimental Education,” George Eliot’s novel “Middlemarch” and stories by Guy de Maupassant. David Hockney in lockdown: How the artist found his perpetual spring in a horrible year 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The next time the writers crossed paths, Proust was in the ground. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z On that subject, Ross is most persuasive in his close readings of canonic post-Wagnerian literature, particularly Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past,” Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” and the novels of Mann. Review: From the Nazis to RBG, how Richard Wagner changed the world 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Proust has a dark view of human nature. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z And though Evelyn Waugh thought Proust a “mental defective,” it just goes to show you can’t please everyone. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z There are also close readings of Willa Cather’s lesser known music-centered novel, “Song of the Lark,” Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake,” Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” and Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” Talking art, politics and ‘Wagnerism’ with New Yorker music critic Alex Ross 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Described for all time by Proust, this sanctuary of childhood must not be lost. Screen-based online learning will change kids' brains. Are we ready for that? | Maryanne Wolf 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z By some measures, the longest novel in the world is “Remembrance of Things Past” by Marcel Proust. Perspective | Opponents to Hogan’s supersized Beltway are scrambling to read 18,000 pages 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The difference between vice, which can never be removed, and crime, defines war, as it defined fascism a few years after the publication of Proust's novel. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The potential of sensory memory to facilitate this kind of time travel is central to Proust’s art. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Marcel Proust’s brother said the problem with In Search of Lost Time was that people “have to be very ill or have a broken leg” in order to read it. Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Proust said that steamships insulted the dignity of distance. When we were quarantined 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z “Children’s, science fiction, classics: La Peste, War and Peace, The Odyssey, Proust. Teach yourself: a language, or music.” ‘We can’t relax’: Europeans face up to life after lockdown 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Proust has a dark view of human nature. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The chessboard movements of Proust’s actors are just one element of his grand design, however. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z If I happen to quote from Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past,” note that it probably wasn’t Proust. Chris Erskine: This is goodbye, but before I go, some thanks are in order 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z I’ve always wanted to read Proust, Jeff has always wanted to learn the sitar, and thanks to the British government we can fulfill our dreams. Lionel Shriver is grateful for pandemic quarantine (no she isn't) 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z It never seems to work — consult Proust and Fitzgerald for more details. What we've lost in the plague — and what we've gained: A chance to remake America 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Proust reminds us of who we are and who we are to become. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z He once described him as “pure Proust existentialism.” The 10 best John Prine songs 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z I never managed Proust in pre-virus days, so don’t saddle me with him now, for God’s sake. They can lock me down, but they can't make me read Proust | Suzanne Moore 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Nielsen BookScan, the UK’s official book sales monitor, also reported nationwide increases in sales for War and Peace, The Lord of the Rings and the first instalment of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Book sales surge as self-isolating readers buy ‘bucket list’ novels 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “He was so the wrong person. He sat in one of our meetings just reading Proust in French on a sofa.” Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z By immortalizing his vanished world, Proust exposes, and makes sacred, the vanishing world around us. Reading Proust in wartime: A portrait of racism, nationalism and profound loss 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “He explained Aristophil and that the autographs market is old, closed and snooty,” Mr. Castaing said in his shop one evening, under a photograph of Proust. A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’ 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Over more than a half-century of scholarship, Dr. Steiner hopscotched from the Greek myth of Antigone to the works of Shakespeare, Coleridge, Proust and Borges. George Steiner, renowned literary critic, dies at 90 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z To say that Chiefs fans waited a long time for this is like saying that Marcel Proust thought deeply about a cookie. Opinion | Politics has become the raw embodiment of joylessness 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Through memory, informed by creative intelligence and guided by the beacons of great works of art, Proust transmutes the banalities of everyday existence into dazzling beauty. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Among a list of top priority pages that includes James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, George Orwell, and Marcel Proust, there wasn’t a single page devoted to a woman. The sum of what? On gender, visibility, and Wikipedia 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z That indirect form of searching is also what Freud, and Proust, and even Poe present with their searches after the unconscious, or lost time, or the criminal. The Case of the Angry Daughter 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z After all, discerning queerness in ambiguous texts is part of our adaptive armamentarium, honed on Proust, Dickinson and Shakespeare. How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z This Belgian-turned-San Franciscan is on a quest read all of Proust — out loud, in French, in subway stations. Newsletter: The long fall of Duncan Hunter 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z I went on a journey across the Sahara aged 30 and took Proust with me and absolutely loved it, so that’s been an influence. Caroline Moorehead: ‘Simone de Beauvoir asked me for $200…’ 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z He was, he said, “bummed out and exhausted”: “I tried to take a break and paint and travel. I went to Hawaii alone and finished Proust. But I wasn’t very inspired.” Todd Haynes Rewrites the Hollywood Playbook 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Guests are welcome to bring small dishes from a favorite cookbook, or treats that call to mind a scene from literature, such as Proust’s madeleines. Witches, rituals and more fall book events this week 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z As with the little still lifes’ nods to Chardin, the noble Proust composition evokes Henri Fantin-Latour’s crisp portrait of Manet himself, painted 13 years earlier and hanging at the show’s entry. Review: A Getty show rummages around in Edouard Manet's private shadows 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Inspired by both Proust and The Sopranos, Egan’s Pulitzer-winning comedy follows several characters in and around the US music industry, but is really a book about memory and kinship, time and narrative, continuity and disconnection. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Ignore that advice, too: you should read Proust because it’s a brilliant safari through sex, death and everything in between, but the world won’t end if you don’t. Switch off the phone, turn on the radio and tune into Proust | Alex Clark 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z “A question arises from the start: why did Proust discard these texts from Pleasures, having mentioned them in the initial summary?” Lost Proust stories of homosexual love finally published 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Proust was spot on when he described the childhood memories induced by the madeleine: “Taste and smell are tied up with memory: they occupy the same area of the brain, the hippocampus,” Hills says. ‘We want carbs!’: how comfort food conquered the world’s best restaurants 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The portraits of Proust and Demarsy direct two different performances: He’s a jaunty public figure with whom to interact, eye to eye; she’s a mysterious passing vision, eyes averted, meant to be seen and admired. Review: A Getty show rummages around in Edouard Manet's private shadows 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Whether or not you regard him as the Proust of memoir, his compulsive honesty created a new benchmark for autofiction. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Proust: the prescient enemy of the quantified self, the fleeting gaze, the endlessly active; the champion of brooding and naps. Switch off the phone, turn on the radio and tune into Proust | Alex Clark 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, Fraisse said that Proust had already, in the unpublished stories, found his “perfect mastery of expression”. Lost Proust stories of homosexual love finally published 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Marcel Proust joined our walks along the French Cathar Way last year. Walking helped me discover the slow unfurling joy of reading books aloud | Patti Miller 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Marcel Proust’s housekeeper, Celeste, not only brought him his daily coffee, croissants, newspapers and mail on a silver tray, but was always on hand whenever he wanted to chat, sometimes for hours. A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to themselves | Brigid Schulte 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z There were also books studied at school by Marcel Proust, André Gide, Christopher Isherwood, and I felt that the story they were telling was my story. Édouard Louis: ‘We didn’t reject literature – it rejected us’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z A Proust canapé is better than no Proust at all. Switch off the phone, turn on the radio and tune into Proust | Alex Clark 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Nine lost stories by Marcel Proust, which the revered French author is believed to have kept private because of their “audacity”, are due to be published for the first time this autumn. Lost Proust stories of homosexual love finally published 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z We are taking Proust with us again this year. Walking helped me discover the slow unfurling joy of reading books aloud | Patti Miller 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z He is prone to throw a veritable fit of sarcastic glee when upper-middle-class critics place the plaster of Mann and Eliot beside the marble of Proust and Joyce. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z In 1904, Marcel Proust wrote an article for Le Figaro whose title, The Death of Cathedrals, now takes on painful resonance. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z What the madeleine did for Marcel Proust, so the aroma of grilling meat unlocks a lifetime of memories for me. Opinion | The Impossible Burger is a wake-up call to the meat industry 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Proust died in 1922 at the age of 51, after pneumonia turned into bronchitis and then an abscess on the lungs. Lost Proust stories of homosexual love finally published 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “And yet, for a year or two, these books will hold all the pleasure of Proust, the excitement of le Carre. Probably more. Parents may find such books a yawn, but their first-graders won’t.” Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, writer of Nate the Great books for young readers, dies at 90 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z On a desk in the studio’s back room, books were piled haphazardly: Paul Celan’s “The Meridian,” Dante’s Divine Comedy, Walter Benjamin’s “Illuminations,” Nelson Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom,” the third volume of Proust. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Sigmund Freud, another secular Jew and contemporary of Proust’s, was similarly entranced by Notre Dame. Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Unsentimental and precise, he reckons with a past simultaneously vanished and all too present, drawing inventively on Proust, Nabokov, De Quincey, and St. Augustine. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z But whatever her age and whatever her dimensions, she remains a full-throttle charmer with the observational skills of Proust. Review: Julia Sweeney is 'Older & Wider' and really, really (really) funny 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Instead, Proust sublimated his feelings by creating Albertine and possessing her in fiction. How uplifting to hear David Bowie’s ‘girl with the mousy hair’ tell her story | Stuart Jeffries 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z He struck poses of despair that resonated with harried readers: of his endless effort to read Proust, of lacking the gene for resisting salesmen, of boredom with dull dirty books. Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “Proust wrote about himself,” Ullmann said, “but his narrator only gives his name in one scene.” ‘I Don’t Want My Writing to Be Charming’ 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Frédéric Chopin, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde are among those buried there. The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z |
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