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from the The Year of Reading Proust group.
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Sometimes, I feel like just shaking Jeremy and telling him to say what's on his mind without having to apologize for it first. Aloha, watch it with the spoilers. There, no harm done. ;)


Here's a lovely featurette from a French TV show on Aunt Leonie's house in Illiers Combray.
http://www.wat.tv/video/visite-guidee...
Lots of ..."
Great find Nick! I enjoyed the mini tour of Tante Leonie's house. As for Kafka being funny, I think it has to do with his writing what is essentially the absurd.

I assumed it was but maybe not? Of course parts of The Metamorphosis are pretty funny but..."
Thanks for the link! I thought I would read this section first and then go back and read the posts, but that was clearly a bad idea. They pile up fast, and I am way behind in trying to read them all.
@Fionnula, sorry to hear about your sprained ankle. Take it easy and try to keep it wrapped up. I hope you iced it when you first sprained your ankle.

Hmm, I'm not German, but I too think Kafka is hilarious. Is this considered rather unusual?
As for me, I find that the good doctor, Dr. Cottard, who takes everything literally and does not pick up on social cues or on vetbal intonations in conversation that he has to study people's faces to understand just screams Asperger's.

Oh! Dr. Cottard is based on a real doctor, Jules Cotard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Co.... Cotard Delusion sounds fascinating."
Yes, I thought so from the very beginning! And the funny thing is Asperger's hadn't become a syndrome when Proust was writing this, but he clearly picked up on the behavior.
I would say high functioning Asperger's.

Something was not quite right in my collage o..."
Good for you! I'm excited to see what resonated with you from your readings. You're so lucky to be creative!I too can't wait to see your art!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/..."
Thank you, Marcelita. I peruse..."
Cheryl, what you've written is better than any blurb I've ever read. Anyone reading this, would rush to the nearest bookstore/ library to get ISOLT! Beautifully written!

Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past.” The book is more about sorrows than joys, but keyed to “the intermittences of the heart.
He was recommending this book as a Valentine's Day gift to a special someone, actually as a last-minute Valentine's Day gift.

Smiles at Eugene chanelling T.S. Eliot.That was quite lovely.

Penguin is publishing his complete poems in a bilingual edition in March: h..."
So, he did write poems. I knew he had to be a poet. Thanks for the link.

That's hilarious!

I'm just reading this now Jeremy, but you should definitely check out https://www.smalldemons.com/ if you like/LOVE book references within books.

After reading somewhere th..."
You're an amazing researcher!!! Thanks for the links!

Didn't the narrator tell us that Swann was attracted to female beauty of the common type? Socializing with the Verdurins when he was used to socializing with the elite shows that he prefers his women trashy rather than aristocratic.

I have this nagging thought that if we know "Proust believed that the life of an artist should be of no interest to us: only his work counts", and if we also know that we are to read ISOLT as a philosophical novel as Proustitute says above, why is it that we are delving so deeply into all this biography? Is it to please ourselves as readers, to find out as much as we can about an author that we admire in our artistic idolatry of him?
We are actually reading as two groups, the first time readers and those rereading, or on their third or fourth reads, and this has me wondering if we're concentrating on all the art and family relations because the group that has read the book already knows the plot, and therefore for their reread are paying more attention to detail this time. I guess what I'm saying is should the first time reader immerse his/ her self into these biographical, art topics or whether we should just read ISOLT trying to understand the psychological and social content that is essential to understanding the characters? Does this make sense or am I rambing? I guess what I'm saying is that this is a totally new reading experience for me, and while it has taught me to be more mindful in my reading of all the objects and author biography, is this at the expense of reading the characters?

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All these links are fabulous, none more so than the spoilers!! I doubt that there is anyone in our discovery-hungry group who will think, spoiler, oh better not read that now. You all know you're going to click on it. :)