Word: proust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resume of the various modern writers in the so called stream of consciousness school the book is excellent. Proust, Andre Gide, Joyce and others are analyzed or even psychoanalyzed and the purpose and method in their apparent madness are clearly and succinctly examined. The frequent discontinuities of action and the indefinite blurring and even incoherent quality of these authors are attributed to the multiplicity of selves within the individual and the generally chaotic and tangled mass of impulses which govern conscious action. This attempt to delineate incipient thought and the very springs of consciousness have necessitated a new technique especially...
...similar occasions in the past members of Dunster House have had opportunities to hear men like Bernard Fay, distinguished French critic, and Giuseppe de Lellis, pianist. Fay who is the author of "Benjamin Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times," addressed the house recently on the subject of Marcel Proust...
...distinguished French critic and author, will probably talk either on Marcel Proust or upon some similar topic related to contemporary French literature. Due to the small size of the common room, the guests will be limited to tutors of Dunster House and their undergraduate guests. M. Fay will speak at the invitation of several tutors in Dunster House...
...life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell of a dissolving world. . . ." Among his more than 70 books: The Black and White Widow, A Doctor of Rare Ingenuity, Torero Caracho, The Chalet of the Roses, The Incongruous...
...Marcel Proust", Professor Morize, Sever...