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...greenhouse of a lavish apartment on the Upper West Side of New York, the protagonist of “Eight White Nights” sees his life flash before his eyes as he tastes a spicy hors d’oeuvre. This moment appears to be directly inspired by Proust??s episode of the madeleine—in fact, André Aciman’s entire second novel reads like an exercise in bringing a feverish Proustian narrative to twenty-first century Manhattan. This novel, which blurs the boundaries between supermarket romance and literary fiction, mainly relies...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aciman Falters in 'Nights' | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Summarize Proust?? (Time is short during the job talk, too. See “Monty Python?...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman | Title: For Aspiring Faculty, A Depressing View | 10/21/2009 | See Source »

...Spellberg, a joint English and Romance Languages and Literatures concentrator, submitted his senior thesis entitled “Art and Dream in Marcel Proust,” which explores the theme of dreaming in Proust??s novels, a topic he said has fascinated him for years...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recipients of Hoopes Prizes Announced | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...still make terrible, fatally wrong choices and end up damaged. It’s a very sad book. THC: If you were both stranded on a desert island and could only take one book with you, which would it be and why?DD: I would say ‘Proust??. You could spend your life reading ‘Proust??.LD: I would say the same thing, and it counts as more than one.DD: It’s 3000 pages, so you get to sort of go a long way with that.LD...

Author: By Kriti Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Interview with the Damrosch Duo | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...novel suffers from several less-than-perfect attempts at recreating the evocative magic of Proust??s madeleine—employing peanut butter and jelly instead to achieve the “mnemonic power of a simple sandwich”—and it somewhat overeagerly propounds a pastoral ideal as the key to “the good life...

Author: By Calina A. Ciobanu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How To Deal: The Ones Left Behind On 9/11 | 2/20/2006 | See Source »

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