Word: proust
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...early days, quick adapters thought they had found the killer app: they used it to call their friends to find out whether their postcards had arrived. ("It has? Great. Bye.") In the first part of the 20th century, the Paris utility pioneered a phone-in opera service. Marcel Proust loved it. He'd dial up from home and someone would hold up a phone next to the stage and, voila, Wagner interactif...
...course, is where I go from here. Will this imaginary entry be an ironic prelude to future greatness like that of Wordsworth, or that drop-out in my father’s freshman facebook, William Gates? Or is this entry representative of a trend? Will I be a Proust or a Prufrock...
Heuet has squeezed the first of Proust's volumes, "Swann's Way," into 72, full-color, large-size pages. When it first appeared in France in 1998 it caused a literary scandal, as only the French can manage. Since then the French version has reportedly sold over 40,000 copies. (Can you imagine Americans caring enough? It brings a melancholy tear...
...after all, the text was written by Marcel Proust, who, based strictly on my experience with this book, justly enjoys his reputation as a very fine writer. There are lovely passages that evoke the original's themes of memory, loss, sensation, nature, and the ability of art to make all of this clear. The famous madeleine sequence, for example, has been adapted with great care: keeping the narrative visually-oriented, including wisps of steam that cross over the panels, while using passages of text to evoke the feeling of not only the events but the book itself: "Will it reach...
...regardless of its origins, Stéphane Heuet's "Remembrance of Things Past," makes for a fine read, evoking a lost world, not just of physical superficialities, but of the very thoughts of the time. I am sure even the book's harshest critics would agree that a little Proust is better than none...