tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366095402024-03-18T23:17:31.538-05:00Reading Proust In FoxboroughProust and his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, will be my obsession, fixation, demon, cattle prod, hobby and motivator in 2007. Will reading Proust, thinking about the man and his milieu and his great novel inform my writing?Grapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-66735430435622518122020-04-25T11:35:00.000-05:002020-04-27T10:36:26.666-05:00Reading Proust in Social Isolation <a href="https://www.thedailystar.com/news/lifestyles/senior-scene-i-m-hiding-out-with-some-imaginary-friends/article_9e08f492-6fe2-57ee-a1ce-9b0b7e32488f.html">Reading Proust at last</a><br />
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And hiding out with some imaginary friends. Thousands of pages. New glitzy (and even weird) friends! Nature. Parties. Conflict. Aristocrats. Servants. The Beach! Dinner parties, soirees. <br />
Proust's great work has it all.<br />
If you're socially isolated and alone, you can immerse yourself in Remembrance of Times Past by Marcel Proust. AKA In Search of Lost Time<br />
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Even if you read it once or twice, it's still worth another read. Visit old friends. JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-1807148180437744442019-08-01T10:53:00.000-05:002019-08-09T08:19:31.940-05:00Laperouse, A Gem of a Restaurant With an Interesting Reputation <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/laperouse-paris-most-scandalous-restaurant-reopens-private-rooms-and-all">A Restaurant To Remember </a><br />
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Proust and other famous French citizens dined there, some in the private salons.<br />
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My husband and I wandered into Laperouse one fine summer day (back when God was a boy). Our first trip to Paris. We stood outside the restaurant and studied the menu. Wow! Did it look good. I thumbed through my Guide Michelin and discovered three stars! Impressive. So far we hadn't eaten at any stars, although that would change.<br />
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So, babes in the cuisine world, in we trod. Very elegant with lots of gold and fancy fabrics. One could see little private dining rooms, but that was of no interest. I think we ate from the carte du jour, but I can't be sure. We had both fish and meat courses, a rarity for Americans. The most embarrassing moment came in the ordering process when the waiter asked which flavor of souffle for dessert. I said "chocolate,"my husband said, "Grand Marnier." The waiter said, "you will be sharing one," or words to that effect. I quickly opted for Grand Marnier. I had never had a souffle in my life. Or meat and fish at one meal. Or surroundings this opulent. We also had both white wine (with the fish) and red wine( with the meat). I recognized the actor Jean Gabin sitting at a nearby table. <br />
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This was heaven on earth. Every bite delicious. Oh, my goodness! We thrilled to the formal but polite service. I didn't even know food could taste this good, and I came from a long line of great Kansas cooks. <br />
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So, eventually the bill was presented. One hundred francs. My God, that was twenty dollars. Who could even imagine spending twenty dollars for lunch? Remember I said this was back when God was a boy. That long ago. <br />
We staggered (due to the wine and the bill) out into the sunshine. It was a meal to remember. We would go on to eat at many famous restaurants in Europe and the U.S., but this was our first introduction to haute cuisine. It could not have been better. <br />
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Of course, I had no idea that the little private rooms were also used for hanky panky. <br />
So nice to hear that Laperouse is opening again. Doubt if we could afford to eat there now, and the food is likely different, so I will just remember this stellar lunch with the service and the wine and the food and my souffle faux pas. Vive la France!<br />
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<a href="http://www.laperouse.com/">Laperouse Web Site</a><br />
JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-42706914783956803552018-12-22T17:54:00.002-05:002018-12-22T17:55:42.126-05:00If You Have A First Edition of Proust, You're in LuckA First Edition of Proust recently hit the auction block. Yikes! This is not chump change.<br />
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Lucky buyer lucky seller <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/a-first-edition-of-prousts-swanns-way-sells-for-1-7-mn-creates-world-record/articleshow/67104135.cms">World Record for Proust First Edition if Swann's Way</a> <br />
I have an ancient edition of two volums of the entire novel that I bought in Houston when I attended Rice. In those days of yore, I patronized a bookstore that had many books from the Seamen's Library in Galveston. Some of them were waterlogged, so they might have gone though the great hurricane. My copy of Proust (in English) is a bit ratty but holding its own. Been read a lot.<br />
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How is YOUR copy of Proust? Is it a First Edition? You are in luck. JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-68177101783554693812018-09-21T10:29:00.001-05:002018-09-21T10:29:28.337-05:00Martha's Vineyard Reads Proust Wow! Wish I didn't live a ferry ride away. The island of Martha's Vineyard (off the south coast of Massachusetts) will read Proust beginning late September. Summers are busy, autumns are beautiful, and winters are long on the island as the population dips to the stalwart year rounders.<br />
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Reading Proust will make the winter pass a lot faster, and since much of Proust is set on the Atlantic coast where Proust spent summers with his grandmother, the scenes should resonate with Vineyard residents.<br />
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See more here: <a href="https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2018/09/20/falling-proust">The Vineyard Gazette of September 20th</a><br />
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And here: <a href="http://www.mvtimes.com/2018/09/19/search-weinstein-lecture/">In Search of a Weinstein Lecture</a> <br />
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Let's wish the hardy (mentally and physically) Vineyard residents happy reading. Maybe they'll be baking madelines and imagine dinners at the Verdurins. <br />
<br />Grapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-52713989063951222232018-08-26T09:44:00.000-05:002018-08-26T09:44:40.666-05:00Visit to an Art MuseumProust has the novelist Bergotte visit a gallery to see a painting by Vermeer. While viewing the painting, the old writer drops dead.<br />
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Marcel Proust himself was a huge fan of Vermeer. Painting, music, and architecture as well as writing permeates Proust's great novel, <i>A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. </i><br />
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This article discusses Proust and painting. <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/457306/marcel-prousts-dream-of-art/">Marcel Proust Dreams of Art </a><br />
The painting of Proust himself will be familiar to readers of this blog.<br />
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This is a terrific article on Proust which I highly recommend. It touches a lot of bases and gives the casual (if there is such a thing) reader of Proust a commanding explanation of Proust's relationship to painting and how it informs his art. <br />
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I don't post very often because I don't find most of the recent references to Proust to be really about Proust or they don't have anything new to say.<br />
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If you find something of interest that I have missed, please comment on this blog. JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-88923015313020648342018-03-06T13:40:00.000-05:002018-03-06T13:40:49.765-05:00Princess Alice Comes Into Her Own in NOLA Marcel Proust used Princess Alice as a model for one of his female characters, Princesse de Luxembourg. Proust had many models in society and in the demimonde. Recently Princess Alice was honored in New Orleans, her birthplace. What a stretch for a Proust character! Or is it?<br />
Read about it here: <a href="http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/high-society-lineage-lives">Society Lineage Lives </a><br />
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By the way, in case you are interested in a Proust summary, not done by Monty Python (remember them?), Wikipedia does a decent job of describing the plot (such as it is) of Proust's great work.<br />
Take a look. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time#The_Guermantes">Wikipedia on In Search of Lost Time </a> JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-8017484931099472962018-03-06T13:11:00.001-05:002018-03-06T13:12:43.490-05:00Putting On the RitzMarcel Proust had a relationship with the Ritz Hotel in Paris as did many notables throughout the hotel's history.<br />
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Everyone had an opportunity to buy a piece of the furnishings as the Ritz geared up for a huge remodeling job. <br />
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Sad to say, I didn't buy anything, Did you? Read all about it here. <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/paris-ritz-auction-offers-bits-of-history-luxury-and-glamour-1.709355">A Bit of History, Luxury and Glamour </a>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-8072741282069540882018-01-12T13:45:00.000-05:002018-01-12T13:45:40.577-05:00Watching Proust in New York CityThe Proust news of late has been rather boring, and I've also been busy writing and trying to get my novels and short stories published. But today something Proustian caught my eye that I wanted to share: <br />
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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/janelevere/2018/01/10/multimedia-production-of-marcel-prousts-in-search-of-lost-time-to-have-ny-debut-tonight-at-fiaf/#4f342fe55a92"> Experiencing Proust in New York City </a><br />
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<i>Writer Jane Lever has this to say: </i><br />
<a href="http://fiaf.org/events/winter2018/2018-01-10-performance.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>A Proust Sonata</i></a>--a multimedia performance that brings Marcel Proust’s literary masterpiece, <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>, to life—is having its New York debut tonight at the French Institute Alliance Francaise.<br />
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So wish I could be there. These events always sneak up on one. But if you're reading this today, January 12th, and you're in the Big Apple and you're a Proust groupie, well, there's only one place to be. JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-83653560067284505272016-07-29T14:13:00.002-05:002016-07-29T14:18:32.155-05:00Remarkable Proust Archives Sold at Auction<span style="font-size: large;">Treasure trove of Proust memorabilia auctioned off. Wow! <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36418657">Proust Auction </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Intimate letters, photos and other items said to be worth about $800,000.00. Did you get to bid? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this link from the BBC news: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36418657">More about the auctioned items </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sotheby's in Paris conducted the auction May 31, 2016. I can just imagine Proust writing about such an event. Maybe some of his characters were there. Anyone from the Jockey Club? Certainly Swann, and maybe a Duke and Duchess or two. Can you imagine the scene? Some tension, enemies crossing paths, the Verdurins snubbed and snubbing. The bids, the fear of exposure when such personal items go on the auction block. One is almost tempted to write such a scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the time of year everyone would have been at the beach hotels (or private residences), so it was a good thing they had the auction before the summer season started. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been terribly negligent with this blog. Reading. Writing. Cooking. Gardening. Family stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Forgive? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's an extra: <a href="http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2015/11/13/france-marvels-at-parisian-beauty-who-made-proust-swoon/">Who made Proust swoon? </a> </span> <br />
JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-24229069170562575062016-01-16T12:01:00.002-05:002016-01-16T12:03:02.711-05:00Catching Up On Proust<span style="font-size: large;">Whew! Busy writing, cooking, gardening, doing the holidays, and racing around in general. I have neglected <i>Reading Proust in Foxborough</i>, but here is a catch up post, because all the interesting Proust "stuff" that's come into my mailbox has been saved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some cool links, in no particular order. Read on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From November 11th. Who was the woman who made Proust swoon? Who was the model for the Duchess of Guermantes? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/france-marvels-class-woman-made-proust-swoon-071208764.html">France Marvels At a Class of Woman Who Made Proust Swoon</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From November 19th: The Albertine Workout. What is heaven's name is that? Read on and all shall be revealed. Not what you think. No weightlifting or wind sprints. Some mental exercise involved. Hey, it's Proust!</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Swooning, scintillating, enigmatic: we are definitely in Proust territory here. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/22/proust-the-search-review-benjamin-taylor">Searching for Proust and also lost time </a></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">My New York friends who spend part of the winter in Florida are always dismissive of its culture. You probably were not in Boca Raton on Dec. 10th, but if you were, you, alas, missed an insightful lecture on Swann's Way. Read on. <a href="http://bocabeacon.com/news/lit-forum-to-feature-hammond-and-prousts-swanns-way/">Proust and Swann's Way Discussed at Boca Forum </a></span></h2>
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<br />JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-10227112624562591612015-03-21T13:37:00.001-05:002015-03-21T13:38:35.692-05:00Proust's Famous Translator Gets His Own Biography C. K. Scott Moncrieff, the man who translated most of <i>In Search of Lost Time, </i>Marcel Proust's great masterpiece<br />
<i>À la recherche du temps perdu, </i>now has his own biography. <br />
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As a young woman I thought the name, Scott Moncrieff, was the most romantic-sounding name imaginable, and it still resonates with me. Proust's translater had his job cut out for him. More than one million words. Mon Dieu, what a task! <br />
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<i>Chasing Lost Time: The Life of CK Scott Moncrieff</i> by Jean Findlay's is new biography of her (several greats) uncle. Moncrieff had an interesting life of his own. Moncrieff also translated Luigi Pirandello, although he claimed not to be fluent in Italian.<br />
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Here is a link to several articles and reviews of the biography.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/20/chasing-lost-time-life-ck-scott-moncrieff-soldier-spy-translator-jean-findlay-review">The Guardian's Book Review</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/11031445/Chasing-Lost-Time-the-Life-of-CK-Scott-Moncrieff-Soldier-Spy-and-Translator-by-Jean-Findlay-review-cherishes-inconsequential-events.html">The Telegraph review</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21612123-story-man-who-brought-proust-english-speaking-world-remembrance-lives">And The Economist </a><br />
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The Wall St. Journal and the New York Times also reviewed the book. <br />
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Take a look! Grapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-29869409028117887852014-10-31T20:46:00.001-05:002014-10-31T20:46:32.962-05:00Is Mondiano the "new" Proust? <a href="http://www.ecns.cn/2014/10-10/137683.shtml">Mondiano wins Nobel Prize for Literature </a><br />
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Hard to imagine that anyone could be the new Proust, but such a statement makes one want to read Mondiano, apparently never a big seller in this country. We don't read a lot of foreign literature except for mysteries and thrillers, of course. And those are usually late arriving in translations. <br />
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I have discovered there is a Proust reading group in Ft. Lauderdale, a city that I very much like to visit, esp. in the depths of the New England winter, which apparently will begin here Sunday evening just in time for the big football game in Foxborough. You don't think we all sit dunking our madelines into the camomile while reading Proust all the time, do you? No. Some of us are big football fans, as Foxborough is definitely more famous for the New England Patriots than for reading Proust. But all that may change. Or not. I would just love to post that the New England Patriots read Proust. Such a coup. <br />
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I have a new link for you. <a href="http://readproust.blogspot.com/">Read Proust </a>Lots of good information and historical facts and verities. <br />
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And if you have read Mondiano, let me know. Apparently the French Culture Minister has NOT. Oh, the shame.<br />
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<br />Grapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-27750723912271538152014-08-10T12:10:00.000-05:002014-08-10T12:14:47.786-05:00When Proust Met JoyceNOT like "When Harry Met Sally." Proust and Joyce met at the Hotel Majestic in Paris in 1922. They didn't particularly take to each other. Well, opposites don't always attract. Wouldn't you have liked to have been a mouse in the woodwork or a fly on the ceiling? The hotel hosted other famous guests. Ah, Paris! <br />
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Read all about it. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hotel-majestic-the-renaissance-of-the-mythical-paris-landmark-where-proust-met-joyce-and-history-was-made-9629834.html">Where Proust Met Joyce </a>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-90776209679120388112014-08-10T12:03:00.002-05:002014-08-10T12:14:05.548-05:00Proust Complains of Noisy NeighborOur friend on 5th Avenue in New York, lives in an apartment where renovations have been proceeding apace next door. Plaster dust, banging, rattling, drilling and all the noise that accompanies a remodeling have been her constant companion for months.<br />
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Imagine if your neighbor is <b>Proust</b>, and he complains to you in heartfelt letters about YOUR noise. Ye Gods! what would you do? Read on. Found in The New Yorker <br />
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-sympathetic-spy-downstairs">The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs </a>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-76840627905398994052014-08-10T11:56:00.000-05:002014-08-10T12:12:29.026-05:00The "Little Phrase" rears its melodic head againI have actually been reading the last volume of Proust and I do find it more enjoyable than all the many words about Albertine, who had become quite tiresome. Now I love Ravel and will have to listen to this music. Alas, the blog has gone quiet of late as I try to finish my own novel and deal with lots of challenges such as many houseguests, the garden, a torn rotator cuff and so on.<br />
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Take a look at this post and visit I-tunes. <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-sunny-melody/Content?oid=19671256">Vinteuil Played a Sunny Melody </a>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-64598845394369895252014-03-26T11:26:00.001-05:002014-03-26T11:30:48.910-05:00Roger Shattuck Read Proust and Read and Read and Read 10 - 12 times, a prodigious feat, and he wasn't even from Foxborough. Read about it here. I am in total awe.<br />
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<a href="http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/FJgeTDakvbA7Sw8abRDSUK/The-man-who-has-read-Proust-1012-times.html">Roger Shattuck Read Proust Many Times </a>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-21748116149552200542014-03-15T11:11:00.000-05:002014-10-31T21:24:05.411-05:00Reading Proust Aloud in AmherstI have to hand it to this book group. Reading Proust aloud (with a nice cup of tea) was a singular accomplishment. The second time around they skipped a bit. In my book (third reading) I'm going to skip the rest of Albertine. Seems awfully repetitive and I have totally bogged down. Onward.<br />
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Here is the link to the Amherst group. They are a hardy, persistent group.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/home/11110967-95/marietta-pritchard-great-expectations-when-reading-aloud">Reading Proust Aloud in Amherst</a><br />
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Amherst, like Foxborough is in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts where they know a thing or two about literature and persistence.<br />
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<br />JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-71503897310424141092014-03-14T17:31:00.000-05:002014-03-14T17:31:57.432-05:00The Goethe-Institut Reads Proust<span class="userContent">Last week we heard a riveting talk on Proust at
the Goethe- Institut on Beacon Street in Boston's Back Bay. Susanne
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and how to read him. Much food for thought. I had never entertained the idea that nature was strongly allied with sex for Proust, and I'll never read about those hawthorns the same way again. Of course Odette's orchids were strongly sexual. Klingenstein posited that some many of the characters behaved badly (or stupidly) in Proust due to ennui. I am going to have to examine these thoughts with more reading. The audience had read Proust in French, German and of course, English and had interesting ideas of its own.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Right now I am reading Rowling's <i>The Cuckoo's Calling</i> and finding some of the same snide comments of London society that Proust delivered apropos Parisian society. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">I am wondering if there are any versions of Proust with quotation marks for dialog and with real paragraphs instead of that daunting dense text. Anybody know? </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Must update my Proust library, as well, because Klingenstein recommended a couple books about him and reading him that had not crossed by radar. Still mired in my academic years of yore, I fear. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent"> I didn't catch the date, but the Goethe-Institut will read the last volume for discussion at a later date. The reception that ends the book is my most favorite section. Can't wait to read it again, in fact I'm going to ditch dreary Albertine and head to the end. It's not cheating, as I've read it before. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Odette, the one with no orchids. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent"> </span>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-11148541929516291032014-03-10T16:57:00.000-05:002014-03-10T17:03:25.958-05:00Photo of Proust in VeniceI can just imagine Proust all bundled up on a warm day in Venice. How it must have thrilled him to be there. The first view of Venice, when traveling down the Grand Canal, does not disappoint. <br />
Take a look. <a href="http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/2014/03/proust_on_trave.html">Proust on Travel </a><br />
I wonder what he ate. My two favorite Venetian meals were the "Treasures of the Adriatic," a fantastic plate of seafood whose memory makes me want to drool, and the appetizer of ravioli with cheese sauce at Harry's Bar. The Bellinis were nothing special, but ye gods, that heavenly pasta and the incomparable cheese sauce against which all future sauces must be compared and found lacking. <br />
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The pizza, however, was molto mediocre. Dumb to order pizza in Venice, yes? JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-18071010886000922442014-03-10T16:52:00.002-05:002014-03-10T16:52:52.939-05:00Proust and FoodThe young narrator Marcel is fascinated by the peas and asparagus in Aunt Leonie's kitchen. <br />
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Proust talks about art and literature and is not above a good gossip, but he also notes the work of the kitchen maids and observes the preparations and color and texture of the vegetables. Such great writing. The asparagus, of course, is the white variety, so beloved in the springtime across Northern Europe. Proust was no exception. JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-25269873159372767682014-01-24T15:51:00.000-05:002014-02-16T13:29:23.603-05:00Pinter Reads Proust. Pinter produces Proust. Drat! I had no idea there would be a Pinter/Proust performance at the 92nd St. Y last week. It's not all that difficult to nip down to the Big Apple from Foxborough, and there's a friend with a sleeper sofa! Oh, she was actually visiting us. Well, crap. Anyhow I missed it.<br />
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Here's a fun write up, that even mentions Monty Python's Summarize Proust contest. <br />
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<a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/theater-and-dance/160173/in-search-of-proust-and-pinter">Pinter and Proust </a>This is a good article both for Proust and Pinter fans.<br />
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Another informative article apropos Proust is here: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/177500/week-nation-history-100-years-writing-about-marcel-prousts-almost-wizard-power#">The Nation wrote about Proust. And wrote and wrote and wrote</a> <br />
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Update: yet another article link<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/02/in-search-of-a-lost-screenplay-when-pinter-adapted-proust.html">When Pinter adapted Proust</a> <br />
<br />Grapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-53654102658573772542014-01-14T16:43:00.000-05:002014-01-14T16:43:13.385-05:00100 Years of Everything ProustIn spite of the 100th anniversary of the first volume of Proust, <i>Swann's Way</i>, relatively little in the way of anything new has come across my desk or via the computer as it were. Nonetheless, a new articles for you to peruse.<br />
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Here is one. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/177500/week-nation-history-100-years-writing-about-marcel-prousts-almost-wizard-power#">Proust as Wizard: Look Out Harry Potter! </a> <br />
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<i>The Nation</i> has wisely been following Proust for almost 100 years. What other publication can make that boast? <br />
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JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-85076830499445171952013-11-18T10:34:00.000-05:002013-11-18T10:34:26.174-05:00Yale University Reads ProustYale reads Proust. Aloud and in many languages. Even Proust couldn't have imagined that. I would have loved to be there but always find out about these events after the fact. <br />
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Lots of celebratory activities going on. Here's the story. <a href="http://wnpr.org/post/marathon-celebration-proust">Marathon Proust Celebration </a>JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-47937359423059745822013-10-24T16:34:00.000-05:002013-10-24T16:34:06.450-05:00Chicago Celebrates ProustPractically everyone who is anyone in the literary world is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way, probably the most accessible volume in the Proust pantheon. Read about it here: <br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davis-schneiderman/post_5842_b_4066002.html">In Chicago Aleksandar Hemon celebrates Proust </a>Aleksandar Hemon offers his history of reading Proust. We are so glad that people read Proust rather than just celebrating him. <br />
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<br />Grapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-11705873448228241502013-10-24T16:22:00.001-05:002013-10-24T16:22:15.080-05:00Happy Anniversary, MarcelLots of brouhaha about Proust's100th anniversary of the publication of his great novel. <a href="http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-358504/">Proust in the Wall Street Journal</a><br />
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The university of Alabama is also celebrating Proust: <a href="http://www.uab.edu/news/latest/item/3">University of Alabama to celebrate Proust's Centennial Work </a><br />
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And lastly, a Duke professor analyzes Proust. <a href="http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/10/16/duke-professor-analyzes-proust/">Analyzing Proust</a><br />
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I hope some people are actually READING Proust rather than just talking about him. JudyinBostonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194047119136913804noreply@blogger.com0