Thursday, April 22, 2010

The World of Marcel Proust

Some of the locations that inspired Marcel Proust for the Recherche. A trip through old postcards. Raidue, 1987. By Elsa Milani and Mario Gerosa.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Marcel Proust: Maestro Nonpareil of Full-Body Listening


Remembrance of Things Past is, of course, a virtuoso performance in sensory attentiveness throughout; but there are certain thought experiments Proust conducts, building on particular instances of perceptual intensity, that are so remarkable, it's worth revisting them even out of their proper, inexhaustibly lush context. ...

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