Word: proust
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...book is dedicated to examining wisdom writing throughout the ages, beginning with Job and Ecclesiastes and moving through canonical Western literature until the 20th century, ending with Freud and Proust. Each section is dedicated to a pair of writers and thinkers, with intensely close and sometimes confusedly compacted analysis that is characteristic of Bloom’s writing...
...Richie has known everyone. But what elevates his writing is that he is equally interested in the cabaret doorman, the homeless straggler, the aging streetwalker he engages in conversation. A man of huge cultivation, he clearly models his journals on Proust and Boswell: thus silvery evocations of the musical soir?es of Tokyo high society are followed by disheveled erotic adventures in the park on the way home. Richie's especial fascination seems to be with faces and deceiving surfaces, designs and strategies, and he is always wise to his own acts. "Another country, I am discovering, is another self...
...wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, after she failed her exams at the Sorbonne in Paris; of heart and lung failure; in Normandy, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She also wrote 30 lesser known novels as well as short stories, plays and movie screenplays...
...vowed to challenge the ban. DIED. FRANCOISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich; in Honfleur, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Though she never matched the success of her first book, Sagan went on to write 30 novels, as well as short stories and plays . DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a Viet Cong captive shot at point...
...masterwork from one of contemporary art's most arresting time travelers. In a zippy new monograph on the artist to be published next week (Thames & Hudson; 112 pages), Justin Paton likens Swallow to a hobby-shop Proust. "There's a sense in which Ricky's career looks less and less like a linear progression from one object to the next," says the curator of contemporary art at New Zealand's Dunedin Public Art Gallery. "It's much more like some circle of time, because he's always monkeying with chronology in interesting ways...