Marcel Proust

from The Captive (Marcel Proust)

Cosmopoetica - Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008

... work of the intellect bring us nearer and which are invisible only–- if then!–- to fools.” –Marcel Proust from The Captive

Pick Of The Picture Books: Paintings in Proust

The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008

No great novelist intrigues, or overawes, potential readers more than Marcel Proust. How can any newcomer dip a toe into the vast rolling stream of In Search of Lost Time and find the confidence to swim and not drown? Although not designed as a novices-start-here guide, Eric Karpeles' gorgeous and fascinating book Paintings in Proust (Thames & Hudson, £25) offers a sumptuous tasting...

A tangy translation of Proust's "Lemoine Affair"

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008

"The Lemoine Affair," Marcel Proust's sendup of an early 20th-century scandal involving fake diamonds, has been reissued in a delicious new translation by Charlotte Mandell.

Proust and Painting

Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008

Harmony in Blue and Silver, James Abbott McNeill Whistler Even before Marcel Proust died in 1922, ordering iced beer from the Ritz on his deathbed, his monumental novel about art and memory was being dissected for wisdom on a stunning variety of topics. It has been celebrated for its obsessions with everything from Norman architecture to optics, [...]

Finding New Artistic Meaning In A Proust Classic

ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008

"Even before Marcel Proust died in 1922, ordering iced beer from the Ritz on his deathbed, his monumental novel about art and memory was being dissected for wisdom on a stunning variety of topics... So it's remarkable that before now no one has focused at book length on painting, a subject that dominates his novel... like almost no other."...

A la recherche du Proust perdu

Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008

This week I will start teaching a new course on writing non-fiction at City University in London, the first class being on Nostalgia and Selective Memory, with Marcel Proust’s Du côté de chez Swann as the core text. As I haven’t read the opening volume to A la recherche du temps perdu since I [...]

Proust ... Dante ... Bruno ... Handke

This Space (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008

Proust A hundred years ago French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) lost money in the stock market, too. And as he would in the epic In Search of Lost Time , he converted the stuff of life into art. Robert Hilferty explains the origin of Pastiches et melanges , translated for the first time into English as The Lemoine Affair . Is this really the first review of the book? Dante...

Baked

Precocious Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008

The oven was on for other stuff, so I decided to make the Madeleine recipe from the seventh volume of Kitchen Princess (Del Rey). Yes, my baking is inspired not by Marcel Proust but by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi. Sorry, Marcel. They turned out pretty well, but I think I’ll add some lemon [...]

Question of the Day #170

Two-Headed Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008

I’ve always enjoyed the Bernard Pivot questionnaire. I just realized, however, that this questionnaire is derived from a (much lengthier) version that was popularized by Marcel Proust. I dug up the Proust version, and thought it might be kind of fun to go through it, one question at a time. So, let’s get started: What is your idea [...]

Who Wrote the Vinteuil Sonata? A Musical Mystery

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008

November seems like a good time to curl up with some hot tea, some petites madeleines, and a copy of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, with Vinteuil’s Sonata playing softly on the hi-fi. Wait -- is that even possible? Does such music exist? Blair Sanderson investigates this tantalizing classical conundrum.

15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning

Hare Rama Hare Krishna (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” - Marcel Proust“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” - Abraham Lincoln “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” - Mark Twain Assuming the public school system hasn’t crushed your soul, learning is a great activity. It expands your viewpoint....

The Scent Trail - Encoding Memory

Brain Blogger (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008

Marcel Proust’s 3,200 page novel À la recherche du temps perdu has in it the famous scene where dipping pastry into his tea flooded him with his childhood memories. It was the odor which provoked it, and it has gone into psychoanalytical literature as the most famous literary evidence of the power of scents in [...]

Emotion and scent create lasting memories — Even in a sleeping brain

Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008

When French memoirist Marcel Proust dipped a pastry into his tea, the distinctive scent it produced suddenly opened the flood gates of his memory. In a series of experiments with sleeping mice,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Emotion and scent create lasting memories - even in a sleeping brain

Biosingularity (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008

When French memoirist Marcel Proust dipped a pastry into his tea, the distinctive scent it produced suddenly opened the flood gates of his memory. In a series of experiments with sleeping mice, researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have shown that the part of the brain that processes scents is indeed a key part of [...]

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Even In A Sleeping Brain Emotion And Scent Create Lasting Memories

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008

When French memoirist Marcel Proust dipped a pastry into his tea, the distinctive scent it produced suddenly opened the flood gates of his memory. In a series of experiments with sleeping mice, researchers at the Duke University Medical Center have shown that the part of the brain that processes scents is indeed a key part of forming long-term memories, especially involving other individuals....