Sodom 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

Sodom 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 123-42
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 142-62

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 305-323
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 323-42
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 342-357
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 357-72
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 372-97

Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 397-446
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 447-55
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 456-70
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 471-83
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 484-89

Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 492-514
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 515-42
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 542-62
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 563-593

Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 593-611
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 611-625
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 625-639
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 639-662
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 662-691
Sodom and Gomorrah IV pp 692-

The 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 Captive V 369-91
The Captive V 391-403
The Captive V 403-408
The Captive V 408-44
The Captive V 444-501
The Captive V 501-11
The Captive V 511-31
The Captive V 531-59

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The Fugitive V 563-614
The Fugitive V 654-95
The Fugitive V 695-712
The Fugitive V 712-32
The Fugitive V 732-52
The Fugitive V 752-82

Articles about Proust

From 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  7/16

Literary Frenemies: Jean Cocteau and Marcel Proust By Claude Arnaud 10/16

On the Boyhood Classmates Who Drove Proust to Write.   First He Was Transfixed, Then He Was... Disappointed.   By Caroline Weber  5/18

On the horribly awkward night James Joyce met Marcel Proust. By Jonny Diamond 5/20

Really, Here’s Why You Should Read Proust. His Biographer Makes the Case.  By William C. Carter 7/16  

Two Never-Before-Published Letters from Marcel Proust to His Neighbor.   Lydia Davis Translates a Couple of Requests for Quiet 8/17  

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp: On Józef Czapski's Wartime Lectures  By Eric Karpeles  11/18

•  Articles about Proust in The Guardian.

•  Articles about Proust in The New York Times

Interesting 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)

• Marcel Proust : Writing and the Arts

• The Enduring Romance with Proust, an essay by Dan Shewan (2012)

• Did Proust invent "air guitar"? It's related to a poem entitled "The Mortal Coil" by Billy Collins, page 106 in this book. (2.21.13)

• ArtCritical: review of The World of Proust as seen by Paul Nadar. 

  ArtCritical: review of Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to “In Search of Lost Time” by Eric Karpeles

   How To Dress The Guermantes Way: “Proust’s Muse” at FIT (2016-17)

• Someone asked The Paris Review which translation of Proust to read and their answer is "Start with Davis, then switch to Montcrieff/Enright.

• From Paul La Farge’s Favorite Reads from 2011: "...And finally, the award for Most Shocking Rhythm Change near the End of a Long Novel goes to Marcel Proust for Le Côté de Guermantes, in which the narrator, having done more or less nothing for many hundreds of pages, finally, in a fit of rage, stomps on the Baron de Charlus’s hat." (12/15/11)

• Lorin Stein, new editor of the Paris Review, on Jewish writers...  "...The other writers, the ones who are our age—for them it’s a fact of life that doesn’t need to be celebrated particularly. It almost sounds odd to call Lipsyte a Jewish writer. We call Proust a Jewish writer, I think, because he wrote so much about being Jewish. (Plus—if you can claim Proust, you claim Proust.) ..." (6/2/11)

• What happened when Proust met Joyce at the Schiffs' party...

• Colm Tóibín on The Sweet Troubles of Proust , Proust & Swann’s Way: 100th Anniversary on view at The Morgan Library (2013)

• Essay/Review of the last three Penguin novels (2005) in Slate (Mar. 3, 2005)

•  Literary Fallout from André Aciman's review of the Penguin UK edition (2005) (Apr. 6, 2006) in the NY Review of Books.

•   "...Through his eyes we see what actuates the dandy and the lover and the grandee and the hypocrite and the poseur, with a transparency unexampled except in Shakespeare or George Eliot. And this ability, so piercing and at times even alarming, is not mere knowingness. It is not, in other words, the product of cynicism. To be so perceptive and yet so innocent—that, in a phrase, is the achievement of Proust. It is also why one does well to postpone a complete reading until one is in the middle of life, and has shared some of the disillusionments and fears, as well as the delights, that come with this mediocre actuarial accomplishment."      From The Acutest Ear in Paris : Christopher Hitchens examines the Davis translation in The Atlantic Monthly, Jan 2004 

• One-minute video of Alain de Botton telling why he wrote his self-help book, How Reading Proust Can Change Your Life. See many other videos by searching on "Marcel Proust."
  

• Sven Birkerts writes "Master of Reveries: Why Proust? And why now?" in The Atlantic Online, 9/7/2000. It promotes Shattuck's book, Proust's Way (reviewed in NYTimes1 and NYTimes2).  And here is Chapter 1.
  

• An excerpt from Madame Proust by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, a biography of Jeanne Weil Proust. For Mother's Day!

• Man Ray took the last photo of Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust is mentioned in this review of a Man Ray exhibit.

• Want to buy a lightly-revised galley proof of Combray? Someone did.

• Stephane Heuet's series of graphic-novel versions of RTP. Amazing books. NPR interviewed (4 minutes) Heuet when the combined & re-translated English edition came out in 2016 to mixed reivews.

• Proust mugs & tote bags for sale, celebrating the end of a year of reading at the Cork-Lined Room blog. Oh, and laptop sleeves, and more over at Society6, books, art, and trinkets on Etsy.

• In case you wonder how it looked in Victorian Paris...

• 1-hour video of Professor Carter talking about his biography of Proust on Book-TV

• Full text of something called The Women of the French Salons.

• Adam Gopnik on Moncrieff's translation.

• Guardian's movie reviews of Proust on film.

• The Desert of After Proust... and how would he use his smartphone? Here are the entire archives of Hannah Gersen's Proust blog at The Millions site.

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Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies, is reading Proust.

Angel: What are you reading? Murray: I’m reading Within a Budding Grove. Proust.

Angel: Is In Search of Lost Time a book you’ve meant to read for a long time and finally got around to reading?  Murray: Well, actually I was pretty daunted by it, so I’d set it by for my retirement. But the book I’m working on now has a French narrator so I thought I should bone up on French culture. I’m reading it in English, but I thought that this was a key text and it is the key text. I’m realizing while I’m reading it that it is so influential. 

Angel: Which translation are you reading? Murray: I’m reading the Scott Moncrieff translation.  

Angel: How many hours a day do you devote to that? Murray: Nabokov wrote an essay about the first volume in which he says, “In Search of Lost Time makes up 4,000 pages which are about a month’s reading.” That’s Nabokov. It took me a month to read the first volume. The sentences are so convoluted you have to read almost every single one twice. The first time round you’re just looking for the verb, then you go back and work out what he’s talking about. So it’s slow going. And I’m reading other stuff, too. {....}

The starting eight.... And then there were four...

Congratulations on regaining time.... 
Lynn, Monica, Terri & Renée 

Le Mystérieux Correspondant published in October 2019

Update: 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 Monday. It will issue the collection on October 9 under the title The Mysterious Correspondent and Other Unpublished Novellas.

The nine texts were originally to be part of his first book, Les Plaisirs et les Jours (Pleasures and Days), a collection of poems and short stories published in 1896.  But Proust, who was still in his 20s, later decided not to include them.

They were uncovered by Bernard de Fallois, a noted Proust specialist who died last year, and founder of the Fallois publishing house. Bernard de Fallois had previously discovered a Proust novel that went unpublished in his lifetime, Jean Santeuil, as well as an unfinished text called Contre Sainte-Beuve. Both were eventually published in the 1950s.

The newfound texts show a young writer dabbling in new narrative techniques while exploring such risqué themes for the era as physical love and homosexuality. "Because of their audacity, he probably thought they would offend a social milieu dominated by traditional moral forces," the publisher said. The 180-page collection will include facsimiles of the original texts as well as analysis and critiques.

Proust, who died in 1922 at the age of 51, has been hugely influential for subsequent generations of authors, in particular for the masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, also called Remembrance of Things Past.

© 2019 AFP

The Fugitive V pp 752-82

p 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 as one of the most important French literary critics of the day rested on these columns, in which he guided the literary tastes of the populace.

p 769 | Mme de Boigne: Éléonore-Adèle d’Osmond, Comtesse de Boigne, born at the Château de Versailles in 1781.

p 769 | Le Constitutionnel was a French political and literary newspaper, which published Sainte-Beuve's "Monday Chats" from Oct. 1849 to Nov. 1852 and from Sep. 1861 to Jan. 1867. They were ruminations on authors and their works, with an emphasis on French literature. His reputation as one of the most important French literary critics of the day rested on these columns, in which he guided the literary tastes of the populace.

p 769 | Paul de Noailles, 6th Duke of Noailles (1802–85), historian.

p 770 | Sophie d'Arbouville (1810-50) French poet & novelist.

p 779 | Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)

The Fugitive V pp 732-52

p 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 provided Louis XV...: Wikipedia disputes this here.

p 751 | ... geometry in space..., psychology in time...

The Fugitive V pp 712-32

p 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, who was a daughter of the House of Guermantes, receiving absolution from Saint Hilaire."  ... "Gilbert's brother, Charles the Stammerer, was a pious prince, but, having early in life lost his father, Pepin the Mad, who died as a result of his mental infirmity, ...Gilbert, wishing to be avenged on Charles, caused the church at Combray to be burned down, the original church, ... Nothing remains of it now but the crypt, into which Théodore has probably taken you, for Gilbert burned all the rest." 

p 725 | Da capo: an Italian musical term that means "from the beginning" (literally, "from the head").

p 731 | Gabriel Fauré: Le Secret (video), song for voice & piano in D flat major, Op. 23/3 (1880-81); Duc de Broglie's Secret du Roi; Golgotha (According to the Gospels, Golgotha was, a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus was crucified... Matthew's and Mark's gospels in Latin rendered Calvariæ Locus, from which the English word Calvary derives, trans. place of skulls, or Proust's Calvus Mons, or Bald Mountain); the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in NE Paris, is the 5th largest park in the city.

p 732 | Pascal's Pensées : The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal.