Word: proustians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things have changed. One hundred years after his birth (July 10, 1871), Proust is a critic's industry. "More has been written about Proust in many languages than about any other author of the 20th century," Proustian Scholar Roger Shattuck claimed a few years ago, counting over 3,000 items in bibliography. To which now can be added this slender volume of eleven essays of French, English and American Proustians collected by English Biographer and Critic Peter Quennell. The book is splendidly illustrated with a variety of period images ranging from lady bicyclists to Sarah Bernhardt reclining amid pillows...
FOLLIES (120). A work of art, rich, various, strange, hauntingly compelling. To float through time in the fragile, foolish bark of the self, and see life through the bifocal lenses of 20 and 50 simultaneously-that is the amazing achievement of this Proustian musical...
...transitory window." The lantern is still there. So is the scrubby garden behind the house, with the little door whose tinkling gate bell announced visitors-and signaled that the young Proust was to be sent up to his bedroom to be kept out of the way. For the dedicated Proustian, the bell evokes the author's agony...
...savor fully the Proustian experience in llliers-Combray, however, the pilgrim must meet a contemporary of the author's, 90-year-old Philibert Louis Larcher. A retired Inspector General of National Education, Larcher has devoted the past 30 years to reminding the town of its Proustian heritage. Through his efforts, the Tante Léonie house was made a national monument and the Pré Catalan was preserved. He founded the Society of the Friends of Marcel Proust and the Friends of Combray. His monograph, The Essence of Combray, has been revised and reissued just in time...
Critics and audiences alike have responded with enthusiasm to Follies' stylistic inventiveness. There is less unanimity of feeling about the theme. Some ?including TIME'S T.E. Kalem?found in it Proustian resonances. Some contend that James Goldman, whose screenplay for The Lion in Winter won a 1968 Oscar, has supplied less of a book than a book jacket. For Phyllis, he wrote some pseudo-sophisticated, Manhattanite monologues that are better read than said...