Proustalia

Cultural references from Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Citations are volume and page number from the Vintage paperbacks and 1985 Penguin Jean Santeuil

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In 2022, I started a thread of quotes that I thought suggested complex systems theory might be a potential framework for understanding aspects of Proust's novel. I've started reading on this more systematically, so here is a new thread

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Gearing up to move to BS. Follow the account there at the same handle

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https://t.co/MAFzfB5BgS

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“But I am disappointed: you had promised me you would ask me for some books, some illustrated ones, some Ruskin?” Read a selection of Proust’s letters, translated by Lydia Davis.
https://t.co/EbpiZU0ao4

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@avecsesdoigts Might just lose myself in Proust today

[Libération @libe]

Spécialiste de Proust, figure intimidante du monde littéraire, le critique Jean-Yves Tadié s’avère on ne peut plus accessible et sympathique dans le premier tome de ses mémoires. Lire et faire lire : Tadié y passe sa vie. https://t.co/jXznwFVj6j

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@ProustCinema @RealPreCinema She was treated terribly by the media and Hollywood because of it. Glad that she's back, truly a wonderful actress

[Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts]

Another of Proust's lovely descriptions of the sea, from my forthcoming translation of Proust's In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

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@avecsesdoigts Beautiful! Another year coming to an end

[Adelphi Edizioni @adelphiedizioni]

«Mi piacerebbe prendere il tè con mio figlio. Lo celebrerò con calma» — Han Kang, all'annuncio del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 2024.

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

Now available! A work of remarkable erudition and deep research, PROUST, A JEWISH WAY brings to light the vanished world of Proust’s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today. https://t.co/x1vc1WdDLz #Proust #Literature @enoitan

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

In the novel 소년이 온다 (2014; ‘Human Acts’, 2016), Han Kang – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Literature – employs as her political foundation a historical event that took place in the city of Gwangju, where she herself grew up and where hundreds of students and unarmed civilians were murdered during a massacre carried out by the South Korean military in 1980.

In seeking to give voice to the victims of history, the book confronts this episode with brutal actualisation and, in so doing, approaches the genre of witness literature. Han Kang’s style, as visionary as it is succinct, nevertheless deviates from our expectations of that genre, and it is a particular expedient of hers to permit the souls of the dead to be separated from their bodies, thus allowing them to witness their own annihilation. In certain moments, at the sight of the unidentifiable corpses that cannot be buried, the text harks back to the basic motif of Sophocles’s ‘Antigone’.

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Great choice! Her novel Human Acts about the Gwangju uprising is a powerful read https://t.co/2Ii9EVaqkD

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@ProustCinema For which the legendary Martin Landau won his oscar

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Brief departure from theme to recommend this wonderful recentish recording of Handel's Theodora

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Camille Pissarro, Morning, Sun Effect, Eragny

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@AntigoneJournal Me, at a party: "Did you know the Cumbrians have 50 words for beating people?"

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Learn more about Jennifer Rushworth's "meticulously researched and skillfully developed" new book PROUST'S SONGBOOK in Katja Haustein's review for @TheTLS: https://t.co/0w0zu6eBRe

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Some beautiful photos of an amaryllis (I think) from Mum's garden in Australia

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Some beautiful photos of an amaryllis (I think) from Mum's garden in Australia

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@Nick_Wellings @MatthewBevan Do they all eat in a cafeteria?