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Book Portrait wrote: "Fionnuala wrote: "Wow! This is a photo I've not seen elsewhere. And I'm imagining what he might have been thinking..."Isn't it an amazing photo? One of the few where Proust doesn't pose...
I'd love to know who took this picture."
Reynaldo Hahn or Marie Nordlinger may have taken the photograph.
Marie and Proust's mother were helping him on the Ruskin translations.
I love the idea that he immediately began his "working vacation." So, 21st Century....
"According to Marie Nordlinger, only a few hours after Marcel's arrival, she and he, sitting in the shadow of Saint Mark's Basilica, began correcting the “proofs of our translation of the Bible.”
"Marcel Proust: A Life, with a New Preface by the Author"
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William C. Carter
Eugene wrote: "...in the relaxed ambiance of the Center for Fiction, listening to scholars discourse on selected Women in Proust was..."I was honored to give our chivalrous Eugene a micro-tour of The Center for Fiction.
And I'm not sure which I enjoyed more...discussing Proust and GoodReads or listening to how Eugene selects the purebred Saxon Merinos ewes to breed with the purebred Saxon Merino rams...each must have the finest quality of wool. Intuition?
Unlike the classic Proustian character, Eugene only has brilliant facets and oodles of charm. (Thus, I wasn't surprised when he became curious about the dumb-waiter and the small, vintage elevator-which opens like a door and can hold three persons and a small end table.)
The Shattuck Reading Room and Archive, which contains Roger Shattuck's personal Proust books...many with his own notations...is on the 6th floor of this historic building, built in 1932 by acclaimed architect Henry Otis Chapman. It's a true joy to just pull down his books and page through them.
The Roundtable discussion was lively, with Harold Augenbraum "flirting" with Anka Mulhstein and Caroline Weber, kidding the audience that it wasn't their time to speak, and provoking skepticism and agreement when he posed that the "first salon" was held in Tante Leonie's bedroom!
BenjaminnTaylor and Hollie Harder added comments to Harold's questions about the relationships between men and women and the "marriage-like" passages found in the book and how famous literary "cocottes" faired socially.
It will eventually be uploaded on The Center's website.
On the 19th, I will return for "Rewriting Proust."
Fionnuala wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Actually, it was almost..."Four years of discussions, ..."
And sometimes 50 pages is too much! It's four years...at 100 pages a month. So, we will need eight years. Yikes!
Marcelita wrote: "And sometimes 50 pages is too much! It's four years...at 100 pages a month. So, we will need eight years. Yikes! "You should take up French! In 4 or 8 years you'd be reading Proust en français. :D
Marcelita wrote: "Reynaldo Hahn or Marie Nordlinger may have taken the photograph.Marie and Proust's mother were helping him on the Ruskin translations.
I love the idea that he immediately began his "working vacation." So, 21st Century...."
Lol. Proust's reputation as an idle mondain is now ruined! ;-)
Resistance is futile. I really have to read Carter's biography now. How could I ever imagine that I'd be happy just reading Tadié's? :)
You’re so lucky in NYC with all the Proust events. There’s barely anything in France! :/
Marcelita wrote: "Fionnuala wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Last evening's kick-off was amazing, at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, overlooking the Manhattan skyline! Antonin Baudry reading "Swann's Way.."Why does that pho..."
I am really enjoying your Pinterest on Venice, Marcelita!
Marcelita wrote: "Fionnuala wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Actually, it was almost..."Four years of discussions, ..."
And sometimes 50 pages is too much! It's four years...at 100 pages a month. So, we will need eight ..."
LOL...50 pages a month is sounding wonderful right now! What a perfect pace that is to re-read.
Ce Ce wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Fionnuala wrote: "Marcelita wrote: "Actually, it was almost..."Four years of discussions, ..."
And sometimes 5O
LOL...50 pages a month is sounding wonderful right now! What a perfect pace that is to re-read. ..."
Three years in...we are now drinking orangeade and plotting to keep S-Loup from returning to Morocco.
Silly question really, but was there any real reason why the narrator couldn't have gone to Venice with Albertine? I vaguely remember his saying that she would have been such a distraction. I didn't find it convincing, myself. What do you think, is this a case of the story following biography a little too closely? Presumably Agnostelli wouldn't have been able to bunk off for a jolly holiday, but there's not much that would have held Albertine back, money could hardly have been a problem if the narrator was buying her a Rolls and a yacht.
·Karen· wrote: "Silly question really, but was there any real reason why the narrator couldn't have gone to Venice with Albertine? I vaguely remember his saying that she would have been such a distraction. I didn'..."Karen, you remembered correctly. Jealousy...would be the distraction.
"I should have liked, as soon as I was cured, to set for Venice, but how was I to manage it, if I married Albertine, I who was so jealous of her that even in Paris whenever I decided to stir from my room it was to go out with her?" MP
"I could not even go to Venice, where, while I lay in bed, I should be too tormented by the fear of the advances that might be made to her by the gondolier, the people in the hotel, the Venetian women." MP
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The Companion Guide to Venice (other topics)Proust and Venice (other topics)
Fortuny, Proust y los Ballets Rusos (other topics)
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Proust contre Cocteau (other topics)
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A lovely photo BP that shows a window and goes well with this passage.I can see the mo..."
Unconditional love...
"...she sent out to me, from the bottom of her heart, a love which stopped only where there was no longer any material substance to support it on the surface of her impassioned gaze which she brought as close to me as possible, which she tried to thrust forward to the advanced post of her lips, in a smile which seemed to be kissing me..." MP