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