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hey Lee, I later read this article: NYTimes: Is This Really Marcel Proust in a Movie?Is This Really Marcel Proust in a Movie? https://nyti.ms/2lmOt0z
Canadian professor discovers what could be only footage of Marcel Prousthttps://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
Ara Lucia do post your comments. There will be many members who will see that a thread has been activated and will join you in discussion. Happy reading!
Jason wrote: "A better book title?"
Can't resist sharing this:
"Go The F*ck To Sleep" read by Werner Herzog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgijP...
HT Paul Holdengraber
Richard wrote: "You might like my Cabourg album. I have a bunch of other Normandy pictures up also from this pleasant week-long getaway. We flew back from Paris just before the most recent unpleasantness with the ..."Lovely pics Richard! Thanks for sharing.
Marcelita wrote: "ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "Proust’s English VoiceChasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy, and Translator, Jean Findlay, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pages
http://w..."
Thank you for all YOUR links Marcelita! You really are something else. You need to get some honorary Proustian award!We were so lucky to have you read with us!
Proust’s English VoiceChasing Lost Time: The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy, and Translator, Jean Findlay, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pages
http://www.theamericanconservative.co...
Waves to the old ISOLT crowd!! Hi Aloha! Hi Elizabeth!You've been missed!!!!Let's all plan on a reread in 2023!
Anghenn wrote: "I've just finished Swann's Way, I thought it was wonderfully written. I just wanted to thank you for all your great comments, as I've read them along with the book, made the read much more fulfill..."Hello Anghenn,
Maybe this will help:
Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff
http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/11...
Check out this thread: Information & General Threads > Books/Translations to Purchase
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
To give ‘The View of Delft’ a physical aspect, Vermeer mixed sand with his paint and delivered a gritty texture to the roofs and stone facades of the buildings. He also applied a thick yellow paste to some areas on the tall tower in order to emphasize the sunlit spots. http://www.aaronartprints.org/vermeer...The passage suggests that the little patch all by itself, the sheer precious substance of its painting, so dense and luminous, is what transfixes Bergotte. But the picture suggests otherwise. It's only within the whole view that this patch – suddenly brighter and purer than you'd expect, and with its yellow animated by the adjacent reds and blues (Vermeer always a great one for the primaries) – blazes out. It's not a self-sufficient and extractable gem. It's an integrated effect, a climactic note.http://some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2...
Proust's China"I approach the illusion to Chinese art in Bergotte's death scene as a signature manifestation of early 20th century artists "new" historic sense. .. Taking Chinese art and Vermeer's View of Delft as epitomies of craft, the scene evokes the historical circulation of the Chinese techne.... Proust's allusion to Chinese art registers a modernity not period-bound but borne through time and across cultures by the high craft Bergotte fears he has failed to attain.
Make it new.... Day by day make it new.
http://www.frenchanditalian.northwest...
Marcelita, ask William Carter what he thinks of this discovery. It was the sand! Proust told us.William Carter
Marcel Proust: A Life, 2000
Carter believes that from what can be understood of original text, neither areas of the two most often cited are more strongly probable than the other and that Proust is creating an impression rather than sending us to admire a precise detail in the painting.3
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/prous...
The sand was pink!that the sand was pink, and finally, the precious little patch of wall.
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Vermeer "View of Delft" Mauritshuis, The Hague "At last he came to the Vermeer which he remembered as more striking, more different from anything else he knew . . . he noticed for the first time some small figures in blue, that the sand was pink, and finally, the precious little patch of wall. 'That's how I ought to have written'."
— The Captive
What do you think?
The name Dianthus is from the Greek words dios ("god") and anthos ("flower"), and was cited by the Greek botanist Theophrastus. The color pink may be named after the flower, coming from the frilled edge of the flowers: the verb "pink" dates from the 14th century and means "to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianthus
Where is the "petit pan de mur jaune"?The View of Delft, Johannes Vermeer
View of Delft (detail)
Johannes Vermeer
c. 1660-1661
Oil on canvas, 98.5 x 117.5 cm.
Mauritshuis, The Hague
How is the little patch described?
...it is a little wall
...it's color is yellow
...it is with a sloping roof
...it is precious like a work of Chinese art
I've been haunted by that little wall of yellow.
I read that pink meant yellow. Could this be a clue?
"Etymology
“Pink” once meant “yellow.” What? We know, it’s confusing. See, Dutch “pink” was a yellow pigment; but because “pink” also means a frilled edge, it became closely associated with the dianthus flower, which has notched petals. And what’s the most common color for dianthus flowers? You guessed it: pink. Still confused? We are, too."
http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/...
What do you think? Can you find the "petit pan de mur jaune'?????
Last year, the French magazine La Revue des Deux Mondes published an interview with Daniel Mendelsohn about his experiences reading Proust as part of a special issue on “Proust vu d’Amérique.” We’re pleased to present an English version of the interview here, translated from the French by Anna Heyward.http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/20...
Style Over SubstanceTranslating Proust
Leland de la Durantaye
June 16, 2014
http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/l...
Just stumbled across this link that looks like a great read:There are many references to La Recherchehttp://www.elifbatuman.com/criticism/...
Wow, I hadn't noticed that it was written by Elif Batuman! Remember her garlic recipe I shared here? #Eugene and his garlic harvest.
