Sunday, January 24, 2010

Time Regained

Here is a review of the Proust movie, Time Regained.   I actually saw this movie a few years ago in Harvard Square and thought that they did an excellent job considering how notoriously difficult filming Proust's work must be.

Read on.

http://moviesuntildeath.blogspot.com/2010/01/time-regained-1999.html

Odette

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The Cork-Lined Room

I really like The Cork-Lined Room.  The discussion of Proust is excellent with its use of quotes and detail and yet is something every reader can follow--in other words its not too "academic." 


Small confession:  I used to be in the academic camp and somehow migrated to genre fiction where I'm not really at home either.  A wanderer in the city of narrative.



The link to the post with wonderful reflections on Mme. Verdurin, Odette and Marcel is below:


http://thecorklinedroom.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/it-was-a-recognised-joke-in-the-little-clan-among-those-who-were-not-over-endowed-with-wit-to-pretend-that-they-could-never-grow-used-to-saying-mme-swann/


What a cursor-full! 


I always like to see how an author handles flowers.  


Odette, the other one