tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71025062279308562152024-03-05T21:42:25.874-05:00Reading Proust for FunCombray 09.09 ~~ Swann in Love 01.10 ~~ Place Names: The Name 05.10 ~~ Madame Swann at Home 06.10 ~~ Place Names: The Place 03.11 ~~ The Guermantes Way 04.12 ~~ Sodom and Gomorrah 08.14 ~~ The Captive 05.16 ~~ The Fugitive 07.17 ~~ Time Regained 07.18 ~~ FIN 08.19 ~~ Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-53131202437099121792021-09-12T12:19:00.010-04:002023-03-11T21:28:50.914-05:00Time Regained vol VI pp 217-30p 217 | Gabriel Davioud, (French architect, 1823–81), who basically redesigned Paris, i.e., Trocadero, Jardin des Champs-Élysées. p 218 | Charterhouse of Pavia = Carthusian monastery of Pavia (Italy). p 218 | Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian p 218 | Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506), Italian artist. p 218 | Passy is an area of Paris, in the 16th arrondissement, on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-70147827188609080912021-08-15T17:30:00.005-04:002023-03-11T21:03:51.316-05:00Time Regained VI pp 33-40 p 33 | Lettres à Mademoiselle de Volland by Denis Diderot p 33 | Nymphenburg was established in 1747 as Europe’s sole maker of high-quality porcelain. p 34 |Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904):French painter & lithographer, known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists & writers. p 35 | Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-47181972606137888152021-08-14T22:18:00.001-04:002021-08-14T22:50:24.801-04:00Time Regained VI pp 27-32
Edmond & Jules (by Nadar)
p. 27 | The Goncourt brothers offer an intimate view into late 19th century French literary society:
p. 27 | Eugène Fromentin (1820–76) was a French painter and writer. Madeleine is a character in his novel Dominique (1862), known for its psychological depiction of characters content with second best in life and love. In the novel, Dominique Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-18806706744197847392021-08-14T22:11:00.001-04:002021-08-14T22:47:54.925-04:00Time Regained VI pp 1-27p 1-4 | the two ways (in French, with photos; translation to come); also here.
p 7: Chinese porcelain bowl
p 7 | ... Léa dressed as a man... (cross-dressing)
p 8 |... Pascal's gulf.... From a poem titled "Le Gouffre" ("The Gulf"), the opening lines of Baudelaire:
"Pascal avait son gouffre, avec lui se mouvant.
— Hélas! tout est abîme, — action,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-75881634282163255252020-08-13T01:55:00.001-04:002021-07-22T10:06:28.054-04:00Sodom and Gomorrah Table of Contents Enright Under Construction
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 1-21
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 22-28
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 162-77
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 177-95; Sturrock, 141-43
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 195-203
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 203-245; Sturrock, 154-79
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 245-305
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 323-42
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-48723233259969085572020-08-12T14:18:00.000-04:002020-09-02T03:25:04.789-04:00Sodom and Gomorrah Table of Contents (Enright)
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 1-21
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 22-28
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 28-44
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 44-52
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 55-66
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 70-77
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 78-90
Sodom and Gomorrah IV p 91-95
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 95-99
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 99-108
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 108-117
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 119-23
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-1197438723864711822020-08-06T16:33:00.001-04:002020-09-03T12:16:24.290-04:00The Captive and The Fugitive Table of Contents (Enright; incomplete)
The Captive V 1-27
The Captive V 27-46
The Captive V 47-64
The Captive V 64-83
The Captive V 84-109
The Captive V 109-32
The Captive V 133-47
The Captive V 147-56
The Captive V 156-68
The Captive V 169-210
The Captive V 210-30
The Captive V 231-61
The Captive V 261-72
The Captive V 272-89
The Captive V 289-310
The Captive V 310-51
The Captive V 351-69
The Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-86159885040095764682020-07-01T21:50:00.000-04:002020-07-30T00:26:16.176-04:00Articles about ProustFrom LitHub:
How the French Reread Proust. There Are Three Types of People, and All of Them Reread Proust By Laure Murat 7/16
When Marcel Proust Was an Anxious Debut Novelist. On the Launch of In Search of Lost Time By William Carter 7/16
Six Writers on the Genius of Marcel Proust: Siri Hustvedt, Edmund White, Andre Aciman, Francine Prose, Aleksandar Hemon, and Daniel Mendelsohn&Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-23742963829016399782020-07-01T14:20:00.000-04:002020-07-29T23:55:12.389-04:00Interesting Random Links to the Man & the Novel
In the Footsteps of Marcel Proust by Wm Friedkin, 5/15/17 NYTimes: an essay with photos of Proust’s Illiers-Combray
Art & Proust & Eric Karpeles's book
French archives & seminars & papers on Proust
Dutch Proust Association (in Dutch & French)
Chris Taylor's Marcel Proust Chris Taylor's Excellent Ephemera Site (still active in 2019)
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-12296799370209229862019-08-01T14:15:00.000-04:002020-07-29T21:54:35.176-04:00The starting eight.... And then there were four...
Congratulations on regaining time....
Lynn, Monica, Terri & Renée
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-79096228744781509162019-07-08T21:12:00.001-04:002023-03-11T21:33:01.089-05:00Le Mystérieux Correspondant published in October 2019Update: 08/08/2019: Lost Proust stories of homosexual love published as Le Mystérieux Correspondant (The Mysterious Correspondent).
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Paris (AFP) 05/08/2019 - 19:40
"Fans of Marcel Proust
will soon have the chance to read nine novellas from early in his career
that were only unearthed last year, the Fallois publishing house said Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-64449813351583071422018-04-06T17:26:00.012-04:002023-03-11T21:41:37.238-05:00The Fugitive V pp 752-82p 754 | All Saints' Day: a Christian festival in honor of all the saints, held (in the Western Church) on November 1.
Mme du Barry
Charles I
p 755 | Charles I at the Hunt by Van Dyck; Mme du Barry
p 769 | Causeries du lundi: Weekly essays by Sainte-Beuve; they were ruminations on authors and their works, with an emphasis on French literature. His reputation Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-50970474891538850402018-03-30T16:37:00.001-04:002023-03-11T21:49:14.779-05:00The Fugitive V pp 732-52p 736 | "...Venus was the desire of Jove...": Not sure, but sources say Jove was the father of Venus.
photo: Lionel Allorge
p 737 | Chevreuse Valley, sw of Versailles. ==>
p 742 | Fabrice del Dongo: Romantic hero of Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme.
p 744 | paintings by Titian in the Louvre (at left, Woman with a Mirror, c. 1515).
p 746 | (Mme de) Pompadour Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-3248045772189660682018-03-16T16:01:00.001-04:002023-03-11T22:09:48.806-05:00The Fugitive V pp 712-32p 720 | War of 1870 is the name used by the French for the Franco-Prussian War.
p 722 | Gilbert the Bad | see v. 1, p. 145: "You may depend upon it, Mme. Octave," replied the Curé. "Why, it was just his Lordship himself who started the outcry about the window, by proving that it represented Gilbert the Bad, a Lord of Guermantes and a direct descendant of Geneviève de Brabant, whoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-62888513751714663002018-03-01T01:33:00.000-05:002020-08-06T17:09:30.525-04:00The Fugitive V pp 695-712p 706 | Châtellerault : a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France. It is located in the northeast of the former province Poitou (southwest of Paris).
p 707 | Loire River : France's longest river (171st in the world), 629 miles long, draining nearly 45, 200 square miles (more than a fifth of France's land area). It passes near Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-27041244536290632362018-02-28T17:47:00.000-05:002020-08-06T17:10:32.082-04:00The Fugitive V pp 654-95
ruins, 1871
p 657 | The Château de Saint-Cloud was one of Marie-Antoinette's châteaux, where Napoleon & Napoleon III declared themselves Emperor in their turn (in 1804 & 1852). It was built on a site over-looking the Seine about 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Paris. The château was expanded by Phillipe of France, Duke of Orléans in the 17th century, and again by Marie-AntoinetteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-26512785705655724562018-02-15T22:51:00.000-05:002020-08-06T17:11:02.533-04:00The Fugitive V pp 614-54p 617-20 | Phèdre (originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.
p 620 | ..."Jansenist" scruples...: Jansenism is so called after the Christian doctrine put forth by Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), a Dutch Catholic bishop, in his Augustinus, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-34190126880871459442018-01-15T13:05:00.001-05:002021-08-09T02:16:49.196-04:00The Fugitive V pp 563-614p 589-90 | Helen... Trojan elders: On the old men of Troy, upon seeing Helen, from Homer's Iliad, but also referring to Pierre de Ronsard's Sonnets pour Hélène (1578), written for Hélène de Surgères, a young love. The quoted line is from one of the sonnets, Book II, LXVII, line 4.
p 609 | Manon is a comic opera in 5 acts by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Henri&Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-31667677544940836512017-10-29T19:03:00.001-04:002020-08-06T17:18:52.016-04:00The Captive V pp 531-59p 531 | The Ambrosian Library: The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery.
p 531 | Fortuny in Tiepolo pink:
p 545 | Luxembourg Gallery = Musée du Luxembourg (Paris)
p 545 | Fourteenth of July = Bastille Day, French National Day, celebrated on July 14th each year.
p 547 | ...steeple of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-70483998913941826602017-09-29T18:06:00.001-04:002020-08-06T17:13:33.566-04:00The Captive V pp 511-31
Photo: Georges Jansoone
p 512 | Creation of Woman (Eve) at Orvieto Cathedral (probably by Maitani).
p 514 | Jean-Philippe Rameau (French Baroque composer, 1683–1764); Alexander Borodin (Russian Romantic composer, 1833–87).
p 515 | Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians. While details of her story appear fictional, her existence & martyrdom are considered Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-15943756965282788712017-08-09T02:21:00.000-04:002020-08-06T17:13:52.345-04:00The Captive V pp 501-11p 501 | Pianola (player piano); a Velasquez Infanta, for example Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (attributed);
p 503 | Sacred Variation for the Organ = from Vinteuil's septet at the Verdurin's.
p 506 | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808–89) was a French novelist and short story writer.
p 508 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-81, Russian novelist. His novels: The Idiot Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-77642147833744753862017-08-07T01:23:00.000-04:002020-08-06T17:14:11.729-04:00The Captive V pp 444-501
La Tour
p 454 | Casser le pot à quelqu'un: "le sodomiser" (Dictionnaire de l'argot, Larousse, 1990). This is the only mention of by Albertine of anal sex. Although the explanation that follows suggests that the expression may have been used by lesbians to denote penetrative sex in general. (Clark note)
p 470| Maurice de La Tour (1704-88) was a French Rococo portraitist Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-71518464499526710782017-07-24T01:08:00.000-04:002020-08-06T17:18:10.299-04:00The Captive V pp 408-44p 411 | Ultramontanism is a clerical political conception within the Catholic Church that places strong emphasis on the powers of the Pope. From the Middle Ages: when a non-Italian was elected to the papacy, he was said to be papa ultramontano, that is, a Pope from beyond the mountains (referring to the Alps). Foreign students at medieval Italian universities were also referred to as Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-44041643919070591132017-07-07T22:57:00.000-04:002020-08-06T17:52:56.671-04:00Proust movies
Famous Authors: Marcel Proust 2008 NR
Time Regained1999
The Captive/La Captive2000 NR
Swann in Love 1984 R
Famous Authors - Marcel Proust
Alan Bennett at the BBC - 4-DVD Box Set ( 102 Boulevard Haussmann / A Day Out / A Question of Attribution / A...
1990 Unrated
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7102506227930856215.post-53096124873333578312017-05-03T03:27:00.000-04:002020-09-02T18:08:26.585-04:00The Captive V pp 403-408p 403 | Monsieur, like 'Madame,' was a title given to a close relative of the King under the ancien régime. 'Monsieur' was the King's eldest brother, 'Madame' his wife. The 'Monsieur' referred to here, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Louis XIV's only brother, was notoriously an effeminate homosexual. He had two wives (and several children): the second Madame was Charlotte-Elizabeth, a princess Unknownnoreply@blogger.com