Word: proust
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...locker at the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Depot. It is more likely, the editor adds, that he destroyed the missing chapters. Gerald Clarke, author of the upcoming biography Capote, points out that the writer set very high standards for himself. "He wanted to do for American high society what Proust had done for French society," says Clarke, a TIME contributor...
...down at my word processor, ready to write. Nothing came out. I was blocked. Blank. The most profound nothingness this side of Proust. I sucked in the primordial void and then barfed till all was meaninglessness, my brain a cranial subterranean pool of anti-meaning...
...well-developed standard for judging the culpability of fiction; libel rulings have been concerned mostly with news reports. Real people have served as models for fictional characters, from Proust's Baron Charlus to Bellow's Humboldt. An author's weave of truth and invention is difficult to unravel, and never more so than in a semiautobiographical work like The Bell Jar, which was first published in Britain in 1963, just a month before Plath committed suicide. The story of a young woman's descent into madness spoke to the rising women's movement as well as the romantic instincts...
EVERY YEAR around this time, I have to live through an ordeal. I am sitting at the lunch table, listening to the usual idle chatter about Proust's toenails and the meaning of life, when it suddenly starts...
...past in a golden glow. The 26-hour bus trip, the simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into the unforgettable adventures with which we can impress our friends. Paradise's loss is our gain. Small wonder that Proust, great poet laureate of reminiscence, wrote, "Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus." Nothing is ever what it used...