Word: proust
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...under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic and economic force." Virginia Woolf said that if completed, Sanditon would have shown Austen to be a forerunner of Henry James and Proust...
...questions remained: Which of the half-dozen plots set spinning in the work's opening chapters would Austen have developed? How would the forerunner of James and Proust have finished the novel...
...book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book of the twentieth century . . ."-a clause which, with Connolly, can lead only to Proust. But despite all those reviews in the Observer and then the Sunday Times of London, he was not primarily a critic. He was always being something less or something more: a gossip, an anecdotist or, more often, an essayist. Here he is, taking off from the Gide-Paul Valery letters...
...becoming the 71st recipient of the Prix Goncourt, Laine joins a distinguished list of former winners that includes Proust, Malraux and Beauvoir. He also, however, removes his name from an equally distinguished list of former losers: Colette, Cocteau, Gide, Camus and Sartre. Novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, a member of the Goncourt jury, defended its spotty record last week by pointing out that "we are judging a book by a young author who might have written only one or two earlier" -a process that is apparently as unreliable as judging a book by its cover...
...textbook section of the Coop is even better than consuming a madeleine, for while Proust had only his past to reflect on, selecting courses is most decidedly oriented to the future. This simple arrangement of bookshelves tagged by little slips of paper announcing texts for Chem 10 or Soc Sci 120 or Phil 8 is, in a way, an arena of the imagination, a ball field of the mind on which are played out personal fantasies of your future self. The aisles separating the shelves are sinuous paths in a confusing maze of options, of alternatives leading to different life...