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Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to 'In Search of Lost Time'

Eric Karpeles

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Dec 10, 2012 Fionnuala added it

Shelves: art-related, essays, non-fiction, proust-and-related, skim-read

I'm marking this as read although I only looked at the pictures. ...more

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Dec 20, 2022 Richard Magahiz rated it really liked it

Shelves: art, nonfiction, read-in-2022

Marcel Proust's work is known to many by the way it opens with a description of sense memory from his childhood, one of taste. But in his books the references to visual and auditory senses far outnumber these, whether he's describing a vista, a scrap of melody, the appearance of a character, or hundreds of references to works of visual art. Readers are unlikely to recognize all of these, or be expected to look up the precise detail that caught the author's attention, so this work pairing passage ...more

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Apr 05, 2012 Ben rated it really liked it

Shelves: art, modernism

Let's give it up for Goodreads Recommendations! I was recommended this because I added Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which I am currently reading. The author frequently compares people, objects, landscapes, even feelings and impressions, to works of art. It would be very helpful to have this reference book at my fingertips. ...more

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