Beckett said Samuel Johnson was always with him; yet reading the trilogy, Molloy etc, one feels also (Kenner remarked on … More
Tag: Proust
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
216. (Marcel Proust)
In the sixth volume of Recherche, Proust approaches Tennyson: the section of The Fugitive entitled “Grieving and Forgetting” is an … More
215. (Marcel Proust)
In the fifth volume of Recherche, The Captive, Baron de Charlus refers to a visit he has recently paid to … More
213. (Marcel Proust)
Aristotle, whose “hexis” is not passive habit, but whose thought of human happiness and nature turns on habituation, tells us … More
209. (Marcel Proust)
From the “Proust and Other Matters” blog, a debate from an old Yahoo Proust listserv, over the name of “Cambremer,” … More
208. (Marcel Proust)
To illuminate Proust, consider Zola, who aspires, like Proust to a mythic scale, and whose novel Germinal is an epic … More
196. (Marcel Proust)
In trying to describe the relationship between instinct and intention, convention and originality, which characterizes literary creation, few notions are … More
150. (Cao Xueqin)
This morning, I deleted, for the first time, one of the posts on this blog, the most recent, on Marguerite … More
58. (Leo Tolstoy)
Rather than say anything about Tolstoy, I want to try to explain what I think would be the sort of … More
