Read Series: À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
by Author Marcel Proust
Time Regained (2003)
A work of art is experienced as a temporal, durational phenomenon. It is also an object of physicality, something that is reacted upon and reproduced by our senses and processed, firstly, by our intellect. Therefore a work of art is an object of space-time, as it contains within itself dimensio...
Sodom and Gomorrah (2005)
I finished Sodom and Gomorrah over a week ago, and since then I've been mulling over whether to write a proper "review" of it or not. It was the most amorphous of any of the volumes yet, and thus it is slightly more difficult to speak about, or really wrap my thoughts around. Also, at this poin...
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (1982)
(part one of three)Marcel Proust’s monumental novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, traditionally translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, from a line in one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, and probably better translated in more recent editions as In Search of Lost Time, consists of seven...
The Guermantes Way (2005)
"One morning, Saint-Loup confessed to me that he had written to my grandmother to give her news of me and to suggest to her that, since there was a telephone service functioning between Paris and Doncières, she might make use of it to speak to me. In short, that very day she was to give me a call...
Swann's Way (2004)
What follows is a collection of thoughts and notes that I have finally transcribed from post-its, napkin doodlings, margin scribbles and ideas floating around in my brain for weeks. Please forgive its faults and incompleteness. I hope there is something in it of sense to be retrieved:I.tSeeing“Do...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (2005)
À L'OMBRE de la REPRÉSENTATIONOn my review of Du côté de chez Swann I had concentrated on the pre-eminence of the visual. The careful attention paid by Proust to light, to colour, to objects that add colour such as flowers, and to painting and the visual arts in general, led me to conceive of hi...