On this Friday afternoon, la recherche du temps perdu Nov 14, 2009
For me, they are the aural version of Marcel Proust s famous little madeleine cake, the taste of which brought memories of his childhood flooding back. In la Recherche du Temps Perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past, M. Proust recalled the taste of that cake. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Reviving ancient brothels Nov 4, 2009
Writer Marcel Proust, whose tastes were male-inclined, joined other financiers in investing in two of the city's specialist brothels for men. The houses generally turned a good profit and some of its owners were creme de la creme society people. (iAfrica.com)
Novelist NDiaye wins France's top literary prize Nov 3, 2009
Past recipients include Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras. Last year, exiled Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi won the Goncourt prize for "Syngue Sabour," a novel about the misery of a woman caring for a husband left brain-damaged by a war wound. (MSNBC -- International)
Patrick Alexander’s ‘Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time’ provides charming guide for readers Oct 18, 2009
Patrick Alexander s Marcel Proust s Search for Lost Time provides charming guide for readers - The Boston Globe ... After moving to France in 1972, Patrick Alexander tried several times to read Marcel Proust s The Remembrance of Things Past before he was swept up in the 3,000-page masterpiece by the man he calls this most sensitive, subtle and comic of writers ... Now Vintage has published Alexander s charming guide, Marcel Proust s Search for Lost Time. (Boston Globe)
The diagnosis? Hypochondria Oct 15, 2009
Marcel Proust's father was a leading figure in medical hygiene and lectured on epidemiology, neurology and neurasthenia ... Marcel Proust: Author and critic. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Better Smellers are More Sympathetic, Study Says Oct 13, 2009
Authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Albert Camus have produced works that tie rich scent references to emotions. These literary works inspired study co-author Denise Chen, a sociochemist at Rice University in Texas, to wonder if there was a link between smell and emotions. (National Geographic)
Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners Oct 7, 2009
Big names who never won: Dmitri Mendeleev, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, Henrik Ibsen, Joan Robinson, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Jules-Henri Poincar;, Raymond Damadian and Mahatma Gandhi. 8. (CNN)
'Sorry I Haven't Written': A Scientific Explanation Sep 30, 2009
Nevertheless, both celebrities' letters fit into the same underlying model, as did those of Karl Marx, Robert E. Lee, Marcel Proust and presumably a horde of unfamous letter-writers as well. "I really wish we could have gotten some ordinary people," says Dean. (Time.com)
Proust's death defying drinking Sep 13, 2009
Marcel Proust's death defying beer drinking ... Not many people know that for the last month of his life Marcel Proust subsisted entirely on beer ... Marcel Proust spent more time talking to his maid, and in turn listening to her, than he did any other human being in the decade in which he wrote the bulk of Remembrances of Things Past. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Alex Ross: The music of fictional composers. Aug 17, 2009
The most potent sensual jolt in the first book of Marcel Proust s In Search of Lost Time is felt when Charles Swann falls under the spell of a little phrase in a violin sonata by a provincial composer named Vinteuil. In creating Vinteuil, Proust ventures into an esoteric subcategory of fiction-stories about composers who exist only in the pages of books. (New Yorker)
IN MY LIBRARY: JOEL KLEIN Aug 9, 2009
I was very interested in psychology and human behavior, and one of the things I did was read virtually everything by Mann and Marcel Proust. The one that got me into that genre, that I find most beautiful, is "The Magic Mountain.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
Images of Bennington and beyond Jul 25, 2009
So does taste, a subject about which Marcel Proust had something to say. In contrast, sight locates us spatially. (Boston Globe)
Literary classics, author says, are best beach books Jul 7, 2009
A. "Remembrance of Things Past" by Marcel Proust. I read all 3,300 pages twice on the beach, but it takes forever, and it requires such a level of concentration. (Honolulu Advertiser)
ODDBALL ITEMS: More 'proof' that sex & sports don't mix Jun 25, 2009
Some fun facts to know and tell: Asparagus has been used since ancient times as a vegetable and medicine, due io its diuretic properties and strange propensity to, as literary big wig (or former Canadiens defenseman) Marcel Proust put it, "transform my chamber-pot into a flask of perfume." Its growing season runs from April to June, but its fragrance, firmness and flavor can't be beat in May. Spears should be straight and green, stems shiny, plump, and smooth. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
James Franco Takes A Poetic Turn Jun 24, 2009
The star, who's a grad student at both Columbia and NYU, will help launch the summer Travel issue of Lapham's Quarterly tonight at the Hungaria 00004000 n Cultural Center by reading, along with poet Frank Bidart, from works by the likes of Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Bishop, Marco Polo and Homer. The magazine's assistant editor, Jeannie Vanasco, told Page Six, "I met James through the brilliant writer Matthew Specktor . . . I threw out the idea of James recording passages of Lapham's Quarterly for... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
George Lucas, Alistair MacLean, Ken MacLeod, The Marx Brothers, Herman Melville, Sid Meier, Spike Milligan, Alan Moore (Watchmen and The Voice of the Fire), New Worlds magazine in its quarterly paperback incarnation between 1971 and 1975, Mervyn Peake (the Ghormenghast trilogy), various Plays For Today on BBC TV during the sixties (the only one I can remember the title of was, I think, called The Last Train Through the Harecastle Tunnel ) plus lots of TV in general - especially series like The... (Suite101.com)
LETTER: Using Bible to denounce homosexuality is wrong Apr 29, 2009
The Question wrote on Apr 28, 2009 4:59 PM:" If you were to retroactively withdraw the accomplishments of gay people from history, you'd find yourself somewhere back in the Dark Ages, at least.Subtract the achievements of these: Alexander the Great, Socrates, Hadrian, Richard the Lionhearted, Edward II, Saladin, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Byron, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, E.M. Forster, Tchaikovsky, Marcel Proust, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Julius Caesar, Pope Julius... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Poll reveals UK's reading secrets Mar 6, 2009
In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9%) 9. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama (6%) 10. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Most Britons have lied about the books they read Mar 5, 2009
In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9). 9. (Yahoo News)
IN MY LIBRARY: LILI TAYLOR Feb 22, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009 Last Update: 07:50 AM EST. Posted: 3:09 amFebruary 22, 2009. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Lights! Camera! Amour! Feb 15, 2009
Another place in the movie that's worth visiting on a trip for two is the Pre Lachaise (Wes Craven directed this section) where Oscar Wilde, Chopin and Marcel Proust are buried. It's an eccentric choice but a necessary for the admirers of world's late maestros. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
So She Thought: Wrestling with high school wrestling Feb 10, 2009
Alihandero wrote on Feb 9, 2009 6:15 PM:" I don't know if ANY teenager has seen an Ingmar Bergman film - or even know who he is?Kinda like author Marcel Proust, except he might be more well known in the Bay Area. ". ronk6ur wrote on Feb 9, 2009 6:51 PM:" This is a prime example of parents not teachingtheir kids about current events and what is important in life. Two nights ago a teenager rang my door bell and wanted me to subscribeto the Fresno Bee. After a full blast of "NO", shepromptly asked... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Writer Hortense Calisher dies at 97 Feb 7, 2009
Like Marcel Proust and Henry James, the writers to whom she was most often compared, Calisher composed in the thick, quantum rhythms of the mind. Her sentences were long, her language complex and her story lines often elusive. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
