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Tag: Proust

256. (Samuel Beckett)

Beckett said Samuel Johnson was always with him; yet reading the trilogy, Molloy etc, one feels also (Kenner remarked on … More

Proust, Romanticism, Samuel Beckett, Samuel Johnson, Wordsworth

219. (Marcel Proust)

The last volume of Proust’s great novel is, from the sado-masochistic fantasies of Baron de Charlus in the first half, … More

Proust, the body

216. (Marcel Proust)

In the sixth volume of Recherche, Proust approaches Tennyson: the section of The Fugitive entitled “Grieving and Forgetting” is an … More

elegy, Proust, Tennyson

215. (Marcel Proust)

In the fifth volume of Recherche, The Captive, Baron de Charlus refers to a visit he has recently paid to … More

names, Proust, the novel

213. (Marcel Proust)

Aristotle, whose “hexis” is not passive habit, but whose thought of human happiness and nature turns on habituation, tells us … More

Habitus, Joyce, Proust, the novel

209. (Marcel Proust)

From the “Proust and Other Matters” blog, a debate from an old Yahoo Proust listserv, over the name of “Cambremer,” … More

Modernism, Naming, Proust

208. (Marcel Proust)

To illuminate Proust, consider Zola, who aspires, like Proust to a mythic scale, and whose novel Germinal is an epic … More

Proust, Sociology, the novel, Zola

196. (Marcel Proust)

In trying to describe the relationship between instinct and intention, convention and originality, which characterizes literary creation, few notions are … More

Pierre Bourdieu, Proust, Sociology

150. (Cao Xueqin)

This morning, I deleted, for the first time, one of the posts on this blog, the most recent, on Marguerite … More

Marguerite Yourcencar, Proust, Realism, The Story of the Stone, Victorian Novel

58. (Leo Tolstoy)

Rather than say anything about Tolstoy, I want to try to explain what I think would be the sort of … More

characters in fiction, Criticism, Dickens, Proust, the novel, Tolstoy

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