by Harvey Mudd | Aug 29, 2013 | Proust et Moi
Marcel lui meme Yes, always Marcel, the central figure. The tyranny of Marcel’s neurosis – his obsessive need to be accepted, to access worlds he imagines more perfect than his own, his fantasies concerning certain idealized people, as Mme Swann, –...
by Harvey Mudd | Aug 29, 2013 | Proust et Moi
(midway through “Within a Budding Grove” as before, overwhelmed by the scope of Proust’s ambition and by how successfully he is accomplishing it. I use the present participle “accomplishing” because the narrative has not yet arrived at the conclusion, the...
by Harvey Mudd | Aug 24, 2013 | Proust et Moi
There are dizzying time-warps. We begin with the author remembering, in extraordinary detail, the world of his childhood, Combray, the house of his grandmother, a lush orchestration of sights and smells, of people, particular incidents, 200 pages of it,...
by Harvey Mudd | Aug 20, 2013 | Proust et Moi
A la recherché du temps perdu rises up before me, the Himalayas of literature. I have started the climb and am keeping a journal of the adventure. Since Proust allows metaphors to cross and conflict, I will permit myself the same liberty. Thus: climbing into...
