Marcel Proust

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• Germaine Greer Disses Proust – Walk the Dog Instead

  
  Book Case — Authority: 114
  You have to love Germaine Greer when she’s at her best – sarcastic, caustic, pretty bloody funny. In the Guardian this week, she rants about what a waste of time it is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time:“If you haven’t read Proust, don’t worry. This lacuna in your cultural development you do ...
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• Foucault on Writing and Death

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 429
  As part of his highly influential 1979 essay, What is an Author?, French theorist Michel Foucault reflects on the symbiosis of writing and death in literature: [...] The second theme is even more familiar: it is the kinship between writing and death. This relationship inverts the age-old conception of Greek narrative ...
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• Author, author: Michael Holroyd

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The past, after all, is not a foreign country: they do things much the same there. When my first book was published almost 50 years ago, I was sent something that might more accurately have been described as a retreat than an advance: and so it is again for many of us following the credit crisis. In 1960 I was busy ...
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• Friday Book Finds

  
  Terra Garden — Authority: 116
  I read about Friday Finds on http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/ and want to take part in sharing a book that Ive "found."Please leave comments here on a book you are excited to be reading or plan to read so I can get more ideas for my TBR list :) I am delighted to begin reading "Swanns Way", which is volume 1 of ...
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• Swanns Way: Place-Names: Thomas OMalley

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 133
  I know I said Id take two more weeks to read Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ) but the last section was only sixty pages and I just couldnt wait to finish. Next weeks post will start in with volume two, In a Budding Grove . In "Place-Names" the novel switches gears, moving away from a third person ...
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• Stuff Ive Been Reading: A Monthly Column (10/09)

  
  Outgoing Signals — Authority: 122
  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies--Jane Austen The problem I had with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isnt the fact that some hack added zombies into a classic; my problem is one of logic and storytelling. According to the book, the zombie uprisin... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Literary Rags: Writer and Philosopher T-Shirts

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 429
  Shopping website  Literary Rags offers browsers a chance to purchase T-shirts with the faces of renowned writers, poets, dramatists and philosophers emblazoned on the chest. As if that wasnt enough, each shirt comes complete with a distinctive quote from the said writer/thinker positioned on the back. Its nice to ...
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• Review: Swanns Way: Swann in Love: Saffron

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 133
  Im on my 18th week of reading Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ). Im up to page 540. In two more weeks, I will have finished this book! The first volume of The Search for Lost Time is wrapping up. Things between Charles Swann and Odette are coming to a head. Swanns getting suspicious of Odettes intentions, ...
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• Visualize Proust

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 128
  not quite as simple as The All-England Summarize Proust Competition (below), but an accurate visual overview of A Remembrance of Things Past via Mlle. Ames blog take my word for it as not-a-scholar-of-his-works-by-any-means-but-a-devoted-rea... Read and post comments | ...
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• 10/29/09

  
  Almost Daily Quote — Authority: 122
  In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. - Marcel Proust
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• Swanns Way: Swann in Love: Cordelia Chase

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 133
  Im on my 17th week of reading Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ). Im up to page 510. In three more weeks, I will have finished this book! Much of the thirty pages from 480 to 510 are centered on the Princess and her friendship with Charles Swann. The Princess is written as a shallow but powerful woman. What ...
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• Warm Appreciation: Proust in Painting

  
  Underbelly — Authority: 480
  I dont buy a lot of art books; I tend not to look at them a second time, and they are inconvenient to store. But heres a gem: Eric Karpeles Proust in Painting , a collection of 206 paintings, each linked to the passage in Remembrance of Things Past in which it is mentioned. The book is more than just a ...
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• The Proust Questionnaire….

  
  The Cyberspace Dawdler — Authority: 118
  I venture to say that most of you at one time or another have probably watched “ Inside the Actor’s Studio ” which airs on the Bravo Television Network. The show is hosted by James Lipton and normally involves him interviewing a celebrity guest for an hour, sometimes two, highlighting their lives and ...
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• Afraid of Being Rejected?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  One of the central problems for you if you are anxious is your fear of making a mistake and your fear of being rejected. I dont know about you, but I sure have a long history of rejection---only because, I think, I have constantly been trying to be productive. When I was single I was rejected by girlfriends-but ...
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• Marcel PROUST (1871-1922). Manuscrit autographe

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 151
  Marcel PROUST (1871-1922). Manuscrit autographe 1 page grand in-8 (23,4 x 14,2 cm), sous chemise toile noire et étui dos maroquin noir. Estimation : 10 000 / 12 000 € Précieux manuscrit de travail dune première version du fameux passage sur la résurrection du passé provoqué par le goût de la madeleine. ...
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• Swanns Way: Swann in Love: The Many Faces of Captain Jack Harkness

  
  Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day — Authority: 133
  Im on my 16th week of reading Swanns Way ( Du côté de chez Swann ). Im up to page 480. In four more weeks, I will have finished this book! In the thirty pages from 450 to 480, there are two distinct scenes. The first follows Charles Swann from his point of view as he attends an event. I think this is the first ...
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• Sixteen months and 3,268 pages later, I finally finished Proust.

  
  Outgoing Signals — Authority: 122
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• Nobel Prize Winners & Losers

  
  Lex Lowther — Authority: 116
  While everyone has either been putting the proverbial spank or glad handing Obama for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought it would be of better use to stand back and look at some odd points about the prize itself. Nobel Prize Winners Circle: Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa ...
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• Once I finish the current book I’m reading, I’m...

  
  To Here Knows When — Authority: 440
  Once I finish the current book I’m reading, I’m going to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time .  In its entirety.  I just decided this today.  I read Swann’s Way back in college for a course, but we weren’t required to read the whole thing.  And so, sadly, I didn’t. But I’m going to ...
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• Finding Time to Change a Pattern and Find “New Eyes”

  
  The Time Finder with Paula Eder — Authority: 122
  Finding time to recognize patterns and then make conscious choices about them is one of the most powerful skills that we can cultivate in our lives.  Creating systems and templates (both are essentially patterns) can be great time-savers.  However, patterns can also become rote responses that may not always be ...
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