Word: proust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most famous fictitious pieces of music in all literature is the "Vinteuil theme" described by Marcel Proust in Remembrance of Things Past. Explored and dissected for pages, the theme not only prodded Proust's memory but also helped preserve the memory of Venezuela-born Composer Reynaldo Hahn. A pampered favorite of Parisian society. Hahn was the man on whom Proust modeled the character of Vinteuil, and at his death in 1947, Hahn was remembered chiefly for his friendship with Proust. Last week in Munich's Gärtner Theater, Hahn's little-known operetta, Ciboulette, was drawing...
Ironically, at the time that the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past appeared, Hahn was far better known than his friend Proust. The only son of wealthy parents, he published his first songs at 14. his first opera. L'lle du Réve, at 23. After that, he alternated between opera and ballet. Hahn met Proust when he was 17 (Proust was four years older); later, when his friend was living as a semi-recluse in a cork-lined room, Hahn often played the piano for him. Hahn advised the author on the technical passages about music...
Composer Hahn at first did not take Novelist Proust very seriously-he regarded his friend as a talented amateur. But somehow. Hahn's own stature seemed to depend on that amateur's talent. Last week's revival suggested that the composer may at last have escaped the pages of Marcel Proust's book...
Scattered through these pages are gleanings from many a bottom drawer: an early nature essay by Proust, a radio play by Brendan Behan (both in Evergreen), in which he continues to re-Joyce, a shrewdly funny story by Israel's Isaac Babel (Noble Savage...
Comic Ghoul. Max Beerbohm remains the master among the parodists, although men of greater genius (e.g., Proust, who makes an appearance in French spoofing Balzac, and William Faulkner, in a rare item, parodying himself) have worked in this deceptive motley. Why the passion for parody among writers? Macdonald finds parody inherent in a mature culture; it is a way of digesting the past. Parody obviously demands that the original parodied should be well known to the reader, and this calls for a firmly held common culture. It persists today among the British as a form of "upper-class folk...