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• Vanity.

  
  Miss Britt — Authority: 464
  Inspired by Finn , and Vanity Fair . Miss Britt and the Proust Questionnaire: What is your most marked characteristic? My need to be heard, which is really secondary to my need to be understood. What is the quality you most like in a man? Excellence.  In anything.  I used to believe it was ambition, but ...
  19 hours ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Because I’m A Follower

  
  Native Born — Authority: 108
  Everyone who is anyone on the Internet seems to be doing Vanity Fair’s The Proust Questionnaire inspired by my lovely friend Finn , who reminds me of JackieO. but with way more class.  Even when she dresses like one of the People of WalMart. What is your idea of perfect happiness? A quiet mind. What is your ...
  1 day ago

• To Proust or Not to Proust?

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 500
  As weve seen before , most of us feel some guilt about books we think we should have read (especially if we want to be considered a well-read person) but actually havent, and probably wont. Now Germaine Greer in The Guardian absolves us of the need to read Proust . She says of In Search of Lost Time ( A la ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Whats it all aproust. (aka The Proust Questionnaire)

  
  Blissfully Naked. — Authority: 108
  The Proust Questionnaire Tiffany introduced it to me, via Jason via Anna. (And Sam begat William and William begat..) I like these types of exercises, especially when Im foggy and panicked generally unclear (as this Monday morning finds me). T... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• The Proust Thing

  
  LeSombre — Authority: 127
  These are questions from the Proust quiz in a recent issue of Vanity Fair magazine.  It seems everyone and their sister is doing it, so why not me? What is your idea of perfect happiness? A nice bottle of Scotch. What is your greatest fear? Dying before making sure my LovelyWife and kids are going to be ...
  3 days ago

• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  4 days ago

• Avitable and the Proust Questionnaire

  
  Avitable — Authority: 495
  Thanks to the lovely Finn for this series of questions , taken from the Proust Questionnaire from Vanity Fair magazine. She picked and chose her favorites, and Ill just trust her choices: What is your idea of perfect happiness? Like yin and yang, there would be no perfect happiness without perfect unhappiness. ...
  5 days ago

• Vanity Fairs Proust Now in Book Form

  
  Idol Chatter — Authority: 573
  Vanity Fair magazine has a long tradition thats being made into a book. I suspect itll be a movie before too long! Theres just something wonderful and inspiring about getting to know other people better, whether it be stars, friends...
  5 days ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Frugal Chariot — Authority: 119
  In Search of Lost TimeFor a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say to myself: "Im falling asleep." (Swanns Way, p. 3)The search goes on and with it the panoply of themes that Proust weaves together like threads of a ...
  6 days ago

• In Which I Go All Vanity Fair On You

  
  A Life Less Ordinary — Authority: 478
  Vanity Fair is fast becoming my favorite magazine, as much for what it does have as for what it doesn’t. The Proust Questionnaire has graced the back page for the last 17 years. Scores of the rich and famous and infamous have answered, and I now so will I. I haven’t answered all of them here, only the ones I ...
  1 week ago

• 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
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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, ...
  1 week ago

• 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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• A Bat

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 127
  The French Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1855-1921), poet and aesthete, was an aristocratic descendent of  DArtagnan of Three Musketeers fame and the inspiration of Prousts character Baron de Charlus . On July 3rd, 1885, at the invitation of Henry James , Montesquiou met the artist James McNeill ...
  1 week ago

• "The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others." - Marcel Proust.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  People have studied many things relating to, and regarding Marcel Proust; what they may never have told you is... Proust is funny!! (just not " Lucky Jim " funny.) Professor of French, Catherine LeGouis at Mount Holyoke also reads Proust, and sees the humour : Then last year, while on sabbatical in Moscow, ...
  1 week ago

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