10 QUOTES WITH «PROUST»
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Proust.
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.
To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.
Werewolves were far more terrifying than vampires. It is probably the idea of seeing the human within the beast and knowing you can't reach it. It might as well be a great white shark. There is no sitting down and discussing Proust with it, which the traditional vampire model seems to leave room for. You can have a conversation.
If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.
I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.
I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROUST»
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Proust in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Proust and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How
Proust Can Change Your Life
‘What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary.
2
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book, Jonah Lehrer explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first.
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Proust: Philosophy of the Novel
This book applies the same distinction to Proust; the Proustian novel is bolder than Proust the theorist.
This Companion, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's work.
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Paintings in
Proust: a visual companion to In search of lost ...
A lavishly illustrated exploration of the ways in which Proust incorporated artists and the visual arts into his works reproduces two hundred signature examples of how he embedded subject choices, painting styles, and the appearances of ...
Briefly describes Proust's life, discusses the themes of Remembrance of Things Past, and examines his views on society, love, and art
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the remarkable journey of the reading brain not only over the past five thousand years, since writing began, but also over the course of a single child's life, showing in the process why ...
This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jonathan Goldberg, 2011
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Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time
The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carried on with young Odette de Crecy.
Marcel Proust, William C. Carter, 2013
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Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
A criticism of the book "a la recherche du temps perdu"
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROUST»
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French, English, Comics: Proust On Memory, In Any Language
[Deep breath.] So there's this new English translation of a French graphic novel adaptation of Swann's Way, the first of seven novels in Marcel Proust's ... «NPR, Jul 15»
The Double Life of Proust Translator CK Scott Moncrieff
“C.K.” was Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, best known as the translator whose Herculean rendering of Marcel Proust's 1.2-million-word “In Search of Lost ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
Taking Stock: Answering the Proust Questionnaire
In a recent post, I encouraged women to take stock of their lives to find out what moves them, how they can contribute to women's equality and how to make and ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
Spiral: meet the stylish star of BBC4's grimy French cop drama
Caroline Proust bounces into a trendy Paris hotel and drops her bicycle helmet onto a table in a quiet spot, revealing the messiest hairstyle on television. «Radio Times, Jan 15»
Martha Coakley takes the Proust Questionnaire
To get beyond the spin of this campaign's waning weeks, I asked the men and woman who would lead the state to submit to the Proust Questionnaire. So-named ... «Boston Globe, Oct 14»
Evan Falchuk takes the Proust Questionnaire
So, who are these gubernatorial candidates, really? To answer that question, they submitted to the Proust Questionnaire, so-named because the French writer ... «Boston Globe, Oct 14»
ART 3 presents, CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST …
ART 3 presents CLAUDIA BAEZ, PAINTINGS after PROUST curated by Anne Strauss, an independent curator, formerly Associate Curator in the Department of ... «PR Newswire, Sep 14»
From Proust To PB&J: Why School Lunch Makes Us Feel Nostalgic
We have all been Proust, except our madeleines are probably not madeleines. Instead, they may be Oreo cookies masterfully dipped into school-served milk ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
Proust: Crude Oil Theft is a Big Concern
The new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Total Upstream Companies in Nigeria, Mrs. Elisabeth Proust, spoke to Ejiofor Alike on the company's ... «THISDAY Live, Sep 14»
The Proust Questionnaire: Donatella Versace
Liven up your evening conversations with V.F.'s afternoon e-mail blast. It's super-easy, and it's on the house! subscribe. Will be used in accordance with our ... «Vanity Fair, Aug 14»
