by Marcel Proust
bookshelves: radio-4x, france, fradio, autumn-2013, re-visit-2015, re-read Read from November 15, 2013 to November 18, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076qkbRevisiting, via BBC R4x, all the books in remembrance, our world has altered too. Description: Marcel discovers the staggering gulf...
--The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time Volume III)NotesAddendaSynopsis
bookshelves: radio-4x, france, fradio, autumn-2013 Read from November 15 to 16, 2013 Marcel discovers the staggering gulf between the fantasy and the reality of childhood enchantments. Stars James Wilby.'Tell me, does the Queen of Sweden still look like a daschund?'I wonder if Kjærstad and Proust...
Now I know why I was having trouble with this book. Proust's words as per usual, drip off the page like an overflowing honey pot but that can't hide the subject matter which is social climbing and snobbery. I realize the last two books were based on this but in this volume our narrator is so obsesse...
“It is not possible to describe human life without bathing it in the sleep into which it plunges and which, night after night, encircles it like the sea around a promontory.” - Marcel Proust, The Guermantes WayHaving recently read Anais Nin’s thoughts in [b:The Novel of the Future|248644|The Novel ...
Proust is certainly a master of language and he's got some very, very bright ideas.... But damn was this one boring as hell.I'm not sure Proust is for me.
The Guermantes Way feels like a turning point in In Search of Lost Time for me. By the end of Within the Budding Grove I was thoroughly frustrated with our narrator, wanting him to grow up already or have some deeper insight about the loves of his life than his admiring their beauty (an exaggeration...
Guermantes Way is like the pretentious, over-educated older sister of Budding Grove who constantly outdoes her little sister at everything. She's longer, she's more boring, she's more interesting, she's wittier and funnier, and she just loves to show off how much she knows. We really get to know Sai...
This is remarkably detailed. Either this guy had a photographic memory or he must have revisited all these places later in life (though I seem to recall he was a shut-in). It's sort of overpowering in its detail. I'm so impressed with it, and how he takes these very specific memories and connects...
I've just finished watching the BEST Proust movie. It's called Little Miss Sunshine. I won't spoil it by saying another thing.EXCEPT:As it happens, by complete coincidence the night before I watched A Single Man which doesn't mention Proust but is absolutely also a Proust movie. The similarities are...
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