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...course, helps make this pulp intriguing: your room. Elsie's. The Brattle. And where else could you audit such courses as Comp. Lit 248, Modern Forms of Ambiguity, in which "we shall consider how the trends, first synthesized in Dostoevsky, later developed separately by Conrad, Gido, Joyce, and Proust, finally became re-integrated again in the novels of William Faulkner." That might not be great satire, but at least it sounds familiar...
Plastic Twin. Updike is a delver into himself, much in the manner of Proust. Most of his protagonists in this collection are really the same thin, brooding young man. although they are given different names. Clearly they are different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year...
...most famous fictitious pieces of music in all literature is the "Vinteuil theme" described by Marcel Proust in Remembrance of Things Past. Explored and dissected for pages, the theme not only prodded Proust's memory but also helped preserve the memory of Venezuela-born Composer Reynaldo Hahn. A pampered favorite of Parisian society. Hahn was the man on whom Proust modeled the character of Vinteuil, and at his death in 1947, Hahn was remembered chiefly for his friendship with Proust. Last week in Munich's Gärtner Theater, Hahn's little-known operetta, Ciboulette, was drawing...
Ironically, at the time that the first volumes of Remembrance of Things Past appeared, Hahn was far better known than his friend Proust. The only son of wealthy parents, he published his first songs at 14. his first opera. L'lle du Réve, at 23. After that, he alternated between opera and ballet. Hahn met Proust when he was 17 (Proust was four years older); later, when his friend was living as a semi-recluse in a cork-lined room, Hahn often played the piano for him. Hahn advised the author on the technical passages about music...
Composer Hahn at first did not take Novelist Proust very seriously-he regarded his friend as a talented amateur. But somehow. Hahn's own stature seemed to depend on that amateur's talent. Last week's revival suggested that the composer may at last have escaped the pages of Marcel Proust's book...