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Reading Proust: Reading Moby-Dick
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009. Having finished In Search of Lost Time. And leading a group through Melville's masterpiece beginning next month. I'll be posting occasional musings on the novel at UnpackingMyLibrary. I hope to read Swann's Way. Again in 2009, and perhaps lead another group through Proust's first novel of the Search. Of the seven, it's my favorite and, I believe, the one novel that can give first-time readers of Proust a feeling for the texture of the entire Search. Happy reading to all! Offers...
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Reading Proust: Breaking through Appearance
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Thursday, January 15, 2009. Cross-posted from Unpacking My Library. It may be wholly coincidental that dissociation—the disintegration of a person’s psychological integrity—figures in Moby-Dick. And Swann’s Way. As a way to break through Appearance to what the narrator perceives as Truth. Early in Moby-Dick. In his Melville biography. Andrew Delbanco argues this passage signifies Ishmael’s release from the bonds of tradition and a society that strictly defined and rejected those who did not share i...
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Reading Proust: January 2009
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Sunday, January 25, 2009. Ponders reading Proust, often accompanying her thoughts with Masao Yamamoto's photographs. Thanks to The English Teacher. Thursday, January 15, 2009. Cross-posted from Unpacking My Library. It may be wholly coincidental that dissociation—the disintegration of a person’s psychological integrity—figures in Moby-Dick. And Swann’s Way. As a way to break through Appearance to what the narrator perceives as Truth. Early in Moby-Dick. In his Melville biography. Andrew Delbanco argues t...