Mark Alexander#Proust2023 Finished! Pause to note that as with volume 1, this one turned out to be translated by someone already on my radar -- Ian Patterson, aka Mr Jenny Diski.
And volume 6 of #Proust2023, The Fugitive:
#Proust2023 reached the two shorties this month: The Prisoner and The Fugitive. Highlights first of The Prisoner:
#Proust2023 entering the home stretch: volume 4, Sodom and Gomorrah this month. Translated by John Sturrock.
Lots of dodgy gay politics:
By dint of having tender thoughts about men, we become a woman and a false skirt impedes our steps.
Highlights of The Guermantes Way (Volume 3 of) #Proust2023.
Marcel on art:
his playing is that of so great a pianist that you forget completely that the performer is a pianist
Nova Hellas: Stories from Future Greece—ed. Francesca T Barbini and Francesco Verso tr. Dimitra Nikolaidou et al.
Ein simpler Eingriff—#YaelInokai
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower—#MarcelProust #Proust2023 tr. #JamesGrieve
Ein simpler Eingriff—#YaelInokai
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower—#MarcelProust #Proust2023 tr. #JamesGrieve
Thoughts on volume 2 of Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: #Proust2023
Getting Lost—#AnnieErnaux tr. #AlisonLStrayer
Numa Roumestan—#AlphonseDaudet tr. Charles de Kay
Simultan—#IngeborgBachmann
In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—#ChristopheBlain tr. #ElizabethBell
The Way by Swann's—#MarcelProust tr. #LydiaDavis #Proust2023
Numa Roumestan—#AlphonseDaudet tr. Charles de Kay
Simultan—#IngeborgBachmann
In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—#ChristopheBlain tr. #ElizabethBell
The Way by Swann's—#MarcelProust tr. #LydiaDavis #Proust2023
January reading: nine books, mostly French-style!
Getting Lost—#AnnieErnaux tr. #AlisonLStrayer
Numa Roumestan—#AlphonseDaudet tr. Charles de Kay
Simultan—#IngeborgBachmann
In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—#ChristopheBlain tr. #ElizabethBell
The Way by Swann's—#MarcelProust tr. #LydiaDavis #Proust2023
Highlights of the second and final parts of The Way by Swann's -- #Proust2023
A lot of the second part was hard to read because of the awfulness of the Verdurins; it was a welcome relief when Swann was exiled!
More perceptive psychology:
At an earlier time one dreamed of possessing the heart of the woman with whom one was in love; later, to feel that one possesses a woman’s heart may be enough to make one fall in love with her.