Word: proust
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...main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders of giants (if it’s fair to put author Megan McCafferty in the company of Hemingway and Proust).Word on the street is that Kaavya is somewhat of a hip-hop aficionado, so it’s possible she was merely adding her name to a long list of “samplers” in rap history. From its roots in Jamaican reggae...
...page 12, is the Brangelina of the tattle trade. For gossipists, journalistic ethics can be an oxymoron. Many have accepted meals, jewelry and plane trips from folks hoping for a kind word. And the items they run are not always the truth, not even truthiness. More like speculative fiction--Proust for the prurient...
...cigar end of a meal. They might be any well-heeled diners, friends, perhaps, or business colleagues. But these guests at a midnight supper in Paris' fashionable Majestic Hotel in May 1922 were the best-known artists of the age: impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic...
...however brilliant and entertaining Eco’s theoretical texts may be, one wonders why he didn’t just take a cue from Harold Bloom and hand us an annotated summer reading list. After all, a novel that cites Melville, Proust, Kafka, Rilke, Eliot, and others in its opening pages alone can hardly help but make us think, a little wistfully, of how else we might have spent our time...
...ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz have been auctioned off; stars dim as predictably as sunrise; archetype runs downhill to caricature: Clark Gable is copied by Burt Reynolds who fades into Tom Selleck. Louise Brooks, who seems to have spent her retirement reading, offers the sole consolation. "Proust wrote: 'The only paradise is paradise lost.' Isn't that beautiful?" she asks Kobal. Wisely, he keeps as silent as one of her old films. --By Stefan Kanfer