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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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The saddest day...18 November 1922.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The saddest day...18 November 1922.
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Such a pleasure talking to Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social for this piece! I had just read her IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, a book I absolutely cherish, and was frankly in awe. #proust #proustsky
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Such a pleasure talking to Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social for this piece! I had just read her IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, a book I absolutely cherish, and was frankly in awe. #proust #proustsky
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates... the mind of him whom it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it... II157
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates... the mind of him whom it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it... II157
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All of the Search in one volume!! I learned about this from the Laure Murat book I'm translating (Proust: A Family Affair). It weighs over a pound!
September 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
All of the Search in one volume!! I learned about this from the Laure Murat book I'm translating (Proust: A Family Affair). It weighs over a pound!
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In Boston...September 11th? (French Library)
"Life in Portraits: Catherine Cusset on Hockney, Proust, and the Stories We Tell"
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"Life in Portraits: Catherine Cusset on Hockney, Proust, and the Stories We Tell"
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Life in Portraits: Catherine Cusset on Hockney, Proust, and the Stories We Tell - French Library
Power isn’t just for the powerful. In this timely talk, Professor Julie Battilana explains how understanding and exercising power is essential for anyone seeking to lead, influence, or create lasting ...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In Boston...September 11th? (French Library)
"Life in Portraits: Catherine Cusset on Hockney, Proust, and the Stories We Tell"
Register: frenchlibrary.org/events/cathe...
"Life in Portraits: Catherine Cusset on Hockney, Proust, and the Stories We Tell"
Register: frenchlibrary.org/events/cathe...
I managed to find a cheap copy while on holidays
August 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I managed to find a cheap copy while on holidays
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"…He suddenly caught the notes of a piano, and life for him
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
Camille Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for violin and piano, one of the models for Vinteuil’s “little phrase”
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Camille Saint Saëns - Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for Violin & Piano, Op. 75 (1885) [Score-Video]
YouTube video by George N. Gianopoulos, composer
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August 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"…He suddenly caught the notes of a piano, and life for him
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
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Proust coming down the stairs of the Madeleine after the wedding of Elaine Greffulhe and Armand de Guiche:
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Marcel Proust rare footage, 1904
YouTube video by Granaine
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August 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Proust coming down the stairs of the Madeleine after the wedding of Elaine Greffulhe and Armand de Guiche:
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Cocteau talks about Proust here, imitating his voice near the end:
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[Archive rare] Jean Cocteau évoque Marcel Proust
YouTube video by Artesquieu
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August 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Cocteau talks about Proust here, imitating his voice near the end:
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Dining with Proust is out of print but still readily available
If I had to choose one, I’d say Proust has the best recipes.
August 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Dining with Proust is out of print but still readily available
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If you’re Search-ing for #Proust reading partners, this group starts Swann’s Way today. #Proustsky
August 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If you’re Search-ing for #Proust reading partners, this group starts Swann’s Way today. #Proustsky
The name Bergotte made me start, like the sound of a revolver fired at me point blank, but instinctively, to keep my countenance, I bowed... my greeting was returned by a youngish, uncouth, thickset and myopic little man, with a red nose curled like a snail-shell and a goatee beard. II139
August 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The name Bergotte made me start, like the sound of a revolver fired at me point blank, but instinctively, to keep my countenance, I bowed... my greeting was returned by a youngish, uncouth, thickset and myopic little man, with a red nose curled like a snail-shell and a goatee beard. II139
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#AContinuation25 Our Proust reading begins in less than a week! I just sent out a newsletter about it. All are welcome to join. readingkatebriggs.substack.com/p/acontinuat...
#AContinuation25 Part 6: Proust
Hello everyone!
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July 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
#AContinuation25 Our Proust reading begins in less than a week! I just sent out a newsletter about it. All are welcome to join. readingkatebriggs.substack.com/p/acontinuat...
A nice brief interview
Writers Talking Writers: Elif Shafak on Jose Saramago and Mathias Enard on Marcel Proust
PW Picks: What we're reading.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A nice brief interview
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If you want to read In Search of Lost Time at a casual pace and with company, here’s a reading group that will start on August 2nd. Details in the quoted thread. #Proust #Proustsky
#AContinuation25 It took us a bit longer than expected (life!), but we're wrapping up our reading of Roland Barthes' THE NEUTRAL.❤️🔥
Part 6 of our project—Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME—will begin soon! We're doing a slow, slow read (40pp/wk) & we'll begin SWANN'S WAY on August 2nd. Links below. ⬇️
Part 6 of our project—Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME—will begin soon! We're doing a slow, slow read (40pp/wk) & we'll begin SWANN'S WAY on August 2nd. Links below. ⬇️
July 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
If you want to read In Search of Lost Time at a casual pace and with company, here’s a reading group that will start on August 2nd. Details in the quoted thread. #Proust #Proustsky
The article discusses the poem 'I Often Contemplate My Memory's Skies' published in English in the book Marcel Proust: The Collected Poems
La poesia sul tempo di Marcel Proust, sul valore dell'amore per la memoria
Scopri questa splendida poesia sul tempo di Marcel Proust sul tempo, l'amore e la memoria, che prepara al libro"Alla ricerca del tempo perduto"
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July 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The article discusses the poem 'I Often Contemplate My Memory's Skies' published in English in the book Marcel Proust: The Collected Poems
The one thing to be said for [Mme Blatin] is that she's exactly like Savonarola. She's the very image of that portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolommeo. II125
July 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The one thing to be said for [Mme Blatin] is that she's exactly like Savonarola. She's the very image of that portrait of Savonarola by Fra Bartolommeo. II125
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Besides, it was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving. II118
July 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Besides, it was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving. II118
Note: In his Proust's Playlist, James Connelly recommends the Guarneri Quartet on RCA. Robert Layton, in his Gramophone review, recommends the Quartetto Italiano on Decca. I like the Alban Berg Quartett on EMI. Additional recommendations welcome
July 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Note: In his Proust's Playlist, James Connelly recommends the Guarneri Quartet on RCA. Robert Layton, in his Gramophone review, recommends the Quartetto Italiano on Decca. I like the Alban Berg Quartett on EMI. Additional recommendations welcome
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply....
July 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply....
Besides, it was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving. II118
July 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Besides, it was she whom I loved and whom I could not therefore see without that anxiety, without that desire for something more, which destroys in us, in the presence of the person we love, the sensation of loving. II118
If you understand Italian, there's a good webcast called Tu, Io e Proust, which interviews modern Italian authors. And the auto translated subtitles are actually reasonably good if you don't understand Italian
Tu, io e Proust e il bandito di Michele Marziani
YouTube video by icaroplay
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April 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
If you understand Italian, there's a good webcast called Tu, Io e Proust, which interviews modern Italian authors. And the auto translated subtitles are actually reasonably good if you don't understand Italian
Here's a fascinating concept album. Sonya Yoncheva examines the life of George Sand through the works of artists who were her friends
April 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Here's a fascinating concept album. Sonya Yoncheva examines the life of George Sand through the works of artists who were her friends