Swann's Way (1913) [O]ne must never miss an opportunity of quoting things
by others which are always more
Infirmity alone makes us take notice and learn, and
enables us to analyze processes which we would
Allow me to tell you that even though you are approaching
fifty, you've stayed what you were
The sad thing is that people have to be very ill
or have a broken leg in order to have the opportunity
My dear friend, I may be dense, but I fail to see
why a chap needs thirty pages to describe how he
At the end of seven hundred and twelve pages of this
manuscript, after innumerable griefs at being
A mother's boy who never really grew up, a part-genuine,
part-imaginary invalid totally incapable
About a book published only a few months earlier,
people never speak to me without mistakes
(Reviewed:) Grade: (D+) Tweet Websites:-WIKIPEDIA: Marcel Proust -ESSAY: in search of proust’s genius: Be honest, are you actually reading Proust? (PAULA MARANTZ COHEN, 11/13/2023, the Smart Set) -ESSAY: Whereby Hangs the Tale, Marcel Proust? (Geoffrey Smagacz, January 5, 2023, European Conservative) - -ESSAY: Was Marcel Proust A Comedian? On the Unexpected Humor of In Search of Lost Time: Michael Wood Considers an Overlooked Aspect of the French Novelist's Body of Work (Michael Wood, August 25, 2023, LitHub) -AUDIO: What Marcel Proust listened to while dunking that upteenth madeline (The Morning News, 3/18/21) - -ESSAY: Proust at Woodstock: A desired event either happens or doesn’t and then we start to wait for another. This gives form to our existence, like an old Republic serial. (Dick Turner, 12/20/22, Splice Today) -ESSAY: Proust’s Pinks: For vast stretches of À la recherche du temps perdu, there is scarcely a page unadorned by vibrant colour. To commemorate the centenary of Marcel Proust’s death, Christopher Prendergast celebrates his use of pink, how its tone shifts from innocence to themes of sexual need, before finally fading out to grey at the novel’s close. (Christopher Prendergast, November 9, 2022, Public Domain Review) -REVIEW ESSAY: Seize me if you can: A century on, Proust’s magnum opus retains its universal appeal (André Aciman, 11/03/22, TLS) -ESSAY: ‘Different Speeds, Same Furies’ Review: Of Proust and Powell: In the fiction of two novelists, an epic scope meets a focus on the minute gradations of feeling. ( William H. Pritchard, Sept. 23, 2022, WSJ) -ESSAY: Getting the jokes in Proust: A dismaying number of Proust readers don’t realize it’s supposed to be funny (Nicola Schulman, January 24, 2022, The Spectator) -ESSAY: Proust's Panmnemonicon (Justin E. H. 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(Adam Gopnik, May 3, 2021, The New Yorker) -ESSAY: How to read Proust (Matthew Walther, 2/24/21, The Week) -ESSAY: Proust and the Sex Rats: A modest investigation into whether the French writer indulged in an unusual fetish. (Adam Gopnik, June 13, 2021, New Yorker) -REVIEW: of PROUSTIAN UNCERTAINTIES: ON READING AND REREADING IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME BY SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER (GERALD HOWARD, Book Forum) -ESSAY: Proust in English: How much is the author and how much is the translator? (EDWIN M. YODER JR., 8/17/15, Weekly Standard) -ESSAY: Sunday Morning! Returning to Proust (RUFUS F. · JANUARY 3, 2021, Ordinary Times) -ESSAY: Who is the Narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time?: Saul Friedländer on the Many Functions of the Most Elusive Figure in French Literature (Saul Friedländer, December 15, 2020, LitHub) -ESSAY: A Century of Proust and His Legacy (Mark McGinness, 17th December 2019, Quadrant) -ESSAY: In search of ‘English Proust’: Can the Recherche be adapted and remain Proust? And should it really be seen as therapy? (Christopher Prendergast, 28/08/2020, Standpoint) -REVIEW: of Swann's Way (Michael Woodm, London Review of Books) -REVIEW: Ruminations in an Emergency: A new translation of Proust’s late masterpiece FINDING TIME AGAIN (IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, VOL. 7) BY MARCEL PROUST, TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY IAN PATTERSON (REBECCA ARIEL PORTE, BookForum) -REVIEW: of Death Comes for the Cathedrals: by Marcel Proust (John L. 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(Daniel Halpern, NY Times Book Review) -ESSAY : SUMMER READING; READING AND NOTHINGNESS, OF PROUST IN THE SUMMER SUN (Roy Blount Jr, NY Times Book Review) -ESSAY : FARE OF THE COUNTRY; OF MEMORIES AND MADELEINES (Patricia Wells, NY Times Book Review) -ESSAY : A LA RECHERCHE DE PROUST (Susan Rava, NY Times Book Review) -ESSAY : READING AND WRITING (Anatole Broyard, NY Times Book Review) -ESSAY : The Year of Writing about Proust (CALEB CRAIN, Lingua Franca) -ESSAY : Why Proust? And Why Now? (DINITIA SMITH, NY Times) -ESSAY : In Search of Marcel Proust : UT's Dr. Seth Wolitz Discovered Proust in the Usual Way: Through His Nose (SIDNEY MOODY, Austin Chronicle) -ESSAY : Best of friends, worst of friends : Marcel Proust's work was one of the towering achievements of the 20th century. As a new film based on Time Regained opens, Alain de Botton examines a new volume of his letters (Alain de Botton, booksunlimited uk) -ESSAY : Why I Carry a Torch For the Modern Library (Gary Giddins, NY times Book Review) -ESSAY : A NEW GOOD THING : Why Martha Stewart Is the Modern-Day Proust (Charles Mudede, The Stranger) -ARCHIVES : "proust" (NY Review of Books) -ARCHIVES : Books Unlimited | Authors | Proust, Marcel -REVIEW : of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. By Marcel Proust. The definitive Pleiade Edition, translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (John Leonard, NY Times) -REVIEW : of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. By Marcel Proust. The definitive Pleiade Edition, translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (Richard Howard, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of 'The Guermantes Way' by Marcel Proust (Rose Lee, NY Times, July 5, 1925) -REVIEW : of ON READING RUSKIN. Prefaces to La Bible d'Amiens and Sesame et les Lys with Selections from the Notes to the Translated Texts. By Marcel Proust (John Gross, NY times) -REVIEW : of Pleasures and Regrets by Marcel Proust (Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Unlimited) -REVIEW : of MARCEL PROUST. Selected Letters 1880- 1903. Edited by Philip Kolb (Michiko Kakutani, NY Times) -REVIEW : of MARCEL PROUST. Selected Letters 1880- 1903. Edited by Philip Kolb (John Weightman, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of The Translation of Memories: Recollections of the Young Proust from the Letters of Marie Nordlinger by P. F. Prestwich (Alain de Botton, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW ESSAY : Proust's dearest pleasures : The best of a slew of recent biographies points to the author's conscious self-closeting. (Rick Whitaker, Salon) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust By Edmund White (Peter Ackroyd, NY times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust by Edmund White (Greg Varner, Washington Post) -REVIEW : of M A R C E L P R O U S T by EDMUND WHITE (PETER KURTH, Salon) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust by Edmund White (ANDRÉ ACIMAN, New Republic) -REVIEW : of MARCEL PROUST By Jean-Yves Tadie and MARCEL PROUST A Life. By William C. Carter (Roger Pearson, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust: a Life by William C. Carter (David Bellos, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter (John Gross, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust: A Biography by Jean-Yves Tadié (Alain de Botton, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust by Jean-Yves Tadié (Euan Cameron, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust by Jean-Yves Tadié (Michiko Kakutani, NY Times) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust by Jean-Yves Tadié (Stephen Mitchelmore, Spike) -REVIEW : of Marcel Proust: A Life by William C. Carter and Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié (SIDNEY MOODY, Austin Chronicle) -REVIEW : of PROUST A Biography. By Ronald Hayman (Peter Brooks, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of Proust A Biography By Ronald Hayman (Michiko Kakutani, NY Times) -REVIEW : of Proust among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie ( A. S. Byatt, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW : Roger Shattuck: The Threat to Proust, NY Review of Books A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 1 by Marcel Proust and edited by Jean-Yves Tadié A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 2 by Marcel Proust and edited by Jean-Yves Tadié A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 3 by Marcel Proust and edited by Jean-Yves Tadié A la recherche du temps perdu, 1987-1989: Vol. 4 by Marcel Proust and edited by Jean-Yves Tadié Marcel Proust by Edmund White -REVIEW : of PROUST'S WAY A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time' By Roger Shattuck (Richard Bernstein, NY Times) -REVIEW : of PROUST'S WAY A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time.' By Roger Shattuck (Peter Brooks, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of MARCEL PROUST: A Life by William C Carter and PROUST'S WAY: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time by Roger Shattuck (LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT, Times of London) -REVIEW : of The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time by Phyllis Rose (Alain de Botton, booksunlimited uk) -REVIEW : of THE YEAR OF READING PROUST A Memoir in Real Time. By Phyllis Rose (Victor Brombert, NY Times Book Review) -REVIEW : of TIME & SENSE Proust and the Experience of Literature. By Julia Kristeva. (Peter Brooks, NY Times Book Review) FILM :
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Comments:let me guess what happened here, orrin. you got bored a couple pages in, didn't understand what was happening, and decided that you'd just use others' negative commentary, considering you hadn't understood enough to form your own. good job on another brilliant review, orrin. another brilliant review, where a commenter overshadows you as a literary genius by comparison. splendid work, my man. keep us amused. - - May-14-2003, 05:01 ******************************************************* Thanks. I found the last volume in the newer Modern Library edition and I'm going to give it a shot. though with teeth clenched. :) - oj - Feb-11-2003, 18:15 ******************************************************* Well, if one doesn't make it through Swann's way and all the rest, then I suppose one won't get the full effect of it, and it will seem a hopeless muddle, but I thought that Remembrance of Things Past was one of the finest literary works I've ever read. Not, perhaps, as a novel--as a novel, it is reported to have a wonderfully fugal structure, but it's so long that one doesn't get the effect of it--but as some other sort of artistic work. The last volume is particularly moving, and expresses very beautifully (even in translation--my French is too poor to attempt it in the original) a sense of both terrible loss and continuity after the horrors of the Great War. It's the same sort of sentiment you see running through Tolkien, and even the later Waugh, and even though it is not expressed with anything like an economy of words, it is still there, and because of the prodigiously long build-up, the overall effect of those last three hundred pages or so is quite stunning. Very moving. Or at least, it was to me when I read it in HS. Perhaps it would be different now. - Tae Jensen - Feb-11-2003, 13:14 ******************************************************* |
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