Word: proust
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...Proust Without Interruption. Not even his time in solitary left him entirely bitter, for he found "that it is far easier to withstand hunger when alone than in the company of others." And he there had the chance "to read all the works of Marcel Proust without interruption. . . . I also read eleven volumes of The Origins of Contemporary France, Dom Leclerq's History of the Revolution, and Rousseau's Confessions, The very length of these works prevents most free men from completing them; in one sense, therefore, I was freer than most." Nor was he forgotten...
...novelist, Truman Capote, who was born in New Orleans, owes something to Proust, something to Faulkner. In some ways he gets very close to childhood and to the profoundly sensational values of a child. But for all his novel's gifted invention and imagery, the distasteful trappings of its homosexual theme overhang it like Spanish moss...
...have lately been reading both Joyce and Proust with considerable disappointment; they both seem to me very sick men, giant invalids who, in spite of enormous talent, were crippled by the same disease, elephantiasis of the ego. They both attempted titanic tasks, and both failed for lack of that dull but healthy quality without which no masterpiece can be contrived, a sense of proportion...
...Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
...Sartre (who is not a Jew himself), anti-Semitism is sometimes the mediocre snob's means to a social end. ("Proust showed, for example, how anti-Dreyfusism brought the duke closer to his coachman . . ."). It also makes the French (or U.S.) Jew feel that no matter how hard he tries to be a real Frenchman (or American) he can never really be one-which makes the Gentile feel more like part of the nation's backbone himself...