Word: proust
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...experts, says Malkovich, but Europe can yield magisterial figures like the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, a political thinker, novelist and film director. Another inspiration: Jean-François Revel, whose bestselling book, The Anti-American Obsession, is only the latest reflection of the author's catholic interests from Proust to political philosophy. "Here there is more apt to be infiltration from one form to another," Malkovich says. The theme of crossover - between theater and film, directing and acting, France and the U. S. - is central to Malkovich's life. Early next year he'll release The Dancer Upstairs, the first...
...struggling to prevent Coyote, Chabon's semiappealing Satan figure, from poisoning the waters that nourish the Tree of the World, which holds up the four worlds, which can be magically traversed by scampering around the Tree, which...Let's just say that when it comes to elaborate plotting, Proust has nothing on Chabon...
...burdened by a history of loss and how it can be freed and opened to the pursuit of happiness. Gilligan draws on her own interviews with couples and children - as well as Shakespeare's plays, Freud's case histories, the diary of Anne Frank, and the novels of Hawthorne, Proust, Toni Morrison, and Michael Ondaatje - to offer a radical new map of love." In June, Gilligan will become a faculty member at NYU, in the schools of education...
...tale of Genji is very old and very new, a novel about love and society that also, along with Proust's masterpiece, is one of the world's great representations of the passage of human time. It immerses us deeply in a strange and distant culture, whose graceful decadence initially seems light-years away from the haste and thirst for progress of modern Japan. But 21st century Japan shares the same sense of fecund decay as Genji's Heian period?in both eras, society has become complex, gaudy but, finally, ennui-inducing. Now, as then, it is more rewarding...
...native Mediterranean. And high on the brick wall of the apartment building to the left, a pink patch: a ray of sun breaking through winter's grisaille. Surely Koch had been thinking of the "little patch of yellow wall" in Vermeer's View of Delft, the last thing Proust's connoisseur Bergotte notices before he is felled by a heart attack. Memory and desire: Koch's great understated themes...