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the laws of night and honey: November 18, 1922
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Tuesday, 29 April 2008. November 18, 1922. Portrait of Proust on his deathbed in drypoint by Paul César Helleu. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In Search of Marcel Proust. Geen verloren tijd (belgian). Proust - l'écriture et les arts (french). Vermeer: View on Delft (Mauritshuis). Vermeer: "petit pan de mur jaune" (english). Vermeer: tour through his painting. Prousts Mom (and how Jewish was he? November 18, 1922. The laws of night and honey. Und de...
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the laws of night and honey: Czapski on Vanity in Proust
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Monday, 18 February 2008. Czapski on Vanity in Proust. Czapski then shortly distincts five kinds of vanity in Proust. Then there is the vanity of the aristocracy, the aristocracy, in danger now, because all those snobbish americans take over and enter their circles. The Baron Charlus is the example for the vanity of love, he who in younger years participated in all sorts of masochistical practices, chained to matter like Prometheus to his rock. Vermeer:...
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the laws of night and honey: April 2008
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Wednesday, 30 April 2008. Proust's Mom (and how Jewish was he? Just marking my attendance here. Some links for now, to reviews of a recently published biography of Proust's mother Jeanne Proust. A long essay in The New Republic. Argues against the idea that Proust was a "Jewish writer" but then agrees that this knowledge of his family background did help him in getting a perspective from the. Which was essential to his aims:. And London Review of Books.
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the laws of night and honey: February 2008
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Monday, 18 February 2008. Czapski on Vanity in Proust. Czapski then shortly distincts five kinds of vanity in Proust. Then there is the vanity of the aristocracy, the aristocracy, in danger now, because all those snobbish americans take over and enter their circles. The Baron Charlus is the example for the vanity of love, he who in younger years participated in all sorts of masochistical practices, chained to matter like Prometheus to his rock. Allowing...
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the laws of night and honey: March 2008
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Saturday, 15 March 2008. Georg Steiner on Proust and Needham. Georg Steiner's first essay in his book My unwritten Books. Largely deals with the british biochemist Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham who is famous for his work on chinese science. The results of Needham's work (some of his work) can be admired by reading the Science and Civilisation in China Series. Together with Russel's and Whitehead's Principia mathematica. Steiner says the SCC. Are are...
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the laws of night and honey: Améry on Proust I: Preparations for reading Proust
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Wednesday, 9 April 2008. Améry on Proust I: Preparations for reading Proust. Améry's writing has a refreshing distance towards the subject which is unusual when one reads secondary literature on Proust. For instance, Améry starts: Everyone knows one should read him. But some postpone it. Daß man ihn lesen sollte, weiß ein jeder. Viele aber schieben es hinaus.] so Améry's style can best be described as laconic, reticent and clear. So Améry's advice is to...
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the laws of night and honey: January 2008
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Thursday, 24 January 2008. In search of Marcel Proust. Proust is a celebrated writer, known even to those who haven't read him. Proust's world is a mystery, for it is the essence of inner living, a world which possesses me most. In search of lost. The impulse to start this blog was one that emanated from nowhere and when I suggested it to Antonia ( Flowerville. And Alok ( Dispatches from Zembla. The name of this blog, The laws of night and honey. One co...
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the laws of night and honey: Narrative in Proust
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The laws of night and honey. On Proust and related. Thursday, 14 February 2008. A philosopher. Brevity is not wit here, brevity is not always witty, sometimes words must flow, like a list of long nights. Right from the beginning of in search of lost time. Enduring than the real. Important aspect of his style, I feel is this : that while reading, we are also thinking and while the narrator narrates, he too keeps thinking, but this is done in consonance with the pressure of the present. Thought, which pres...
