Monday, February 26, 2007

Proust's Way

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=18526 A book review

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0374238324/sr=1-4/qid=1172546192/ref=sr_1_olp_4/105-0829614-6274011?ie=UTF8&s=books

The second link is to the book, The Proust Project, which I discovered in my own library, and you can buy this book really really cheap on Amazon. The "project" is 28 writer's writing about Proust, or a passage in In Search of Lost Time, but lots of writers write about themselves or something else entirely. Proust seems to have that affect on writers. I don't recall learning very much about Proust from the book. Oh well.

An old but excellent web site which I may have mentioned before is: Waggish Reads Proust. Insightful comments, very literate and scholarly. I used to be literate and scholarly and I don't know what the hell happened. I got into technology and began writing "commercial" fiction and now it's Remembrance of Being Literate and Scholarly Once Upon a Long Time Ago.

Waggish Read Proust: http://www.waggish.org/proust/

Snow covers the cold ground here and one longs for lilacs and hawthornes and cherries and asparagus. Long live Swan's garden.

Odette

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