Proust is now on Facebook

Have stranger things happened?  Proust is now on Facebook.  You can sign on and become a fan. 


http://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Search-of-Lost-Time-Marcel-Proust/110452695645104?v=desc


I've just returned from the Edgar Awards in NYC, given annually to those whose 2010 publications excelled in the mystery/crime writing genre.


 Due to a panel I sat in on, I bought Robert Arellano's nominated book, Havana Lunar.  Read it already.  It was short and ultra compelling, not your everyday mystery, and Arellano has a great take on setting and atmosphere as well as character.  I really loved this book.  Marcel, I think, would approve.  The descriptions are great, and for a whodunnit, it's not all that mired down in the conventions of clues and procedure.  Plays against the genre in many ways.  I love books about Cuba. 

To Read or Not To Read

Lately, the Proust blogosphere has been a great void, but today, well, voila!

http://www.metafilter.com/72015/Reading-Proust-or-Proust-Reading-You

And more:

http://tiffanynorris.blogspot.com/2008/05/swanns-way.html

We have just returned from Montreal where they no doubt read Proust in French, a task I would find extremely daunting, although I get along fine with menu,signage,etc. in French. Montreal is a rather romantic city, not Paris of course, but still exciting.

We took in the fantastic exhibit of Cuban art at the Fine Arts Museum. In the early days, when the Spanish influence was still pronounced in Cuba, all the painters studied in France or Italy, and were obviously influenced by what they found abroad, which they interpreted in strictly Cuban ways.

One can eat well in Montreal and also coming and going at the CIA in Monpelier and at Simon Pearce in Queechee. We had bistrot chicken cooked on the grill last night and it was merveilleuse.

Odette

Taking Proust to Montreal

I'm trekking to Montreal to see the Cuban art exhibit, something that is hard to find in the states. I mentioned this to a friend who had actually been in Cuba, and she said she didn't remember seeing any art, which is odd, as she is a painter.

So we'll see what we see.

http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/expositions/a_affiche.sn

Would Proust like it? Who knows?

A small mention of Proust in this article:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/cannes/article3978284.ece

And more yet still:

http://emmarytz.livejournal.com/287556.html

And of course Web CowGirl always has something interesting to say about Proust. I just have a few more pages of a thriller to read before I return to the kinder, gentler world of Marcel. Come to think of it, it's not kinder at all, but the violence is psychological, not physical.
http://webcowgirl.livejournal.com/

Odette