Marcel Proust

Saturday, 14 September 2024

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A WW II-flavored homecoming: Author James Benn signs new book Thursday

The Day 13 Sep 2024

But the couple’s defection does reduce the state’s list of prominent authors by one ... Eisenhower ... Q ... A ... Q ... A ... Maybe that’s the same thing?. Q ... Did you in fact visit Pere Lachaise Cemetery and seek out Marcel Proust or Balzac or Richard Wright? And be honest ... .

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50 Best Free Librivox Audiobooks Added in the Past 5 Years

Learn Out Loud 05 Sep 2024

The Best Librivox Narrators ... Bambi ... The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust – Volume Three of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past ... Mrs ... Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust – Proust’s second volume of Remembrance of Things Past.

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A parent's life is a cycle of drop-offs and pick-ups, until the final drop-off

North Shore News 03 Sep 2024

Raising children involves a lot of picking up and dropping off ... What all these trips have in common is that after the drop-off there is the inevitable pick-up ... It is her version of Marcel Proust’s madeleine from Remembrance of Things Past ... .

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How About a Bit of War Communism?

The Daily Sceptic 03 Sep 2024

He signed it off on April 28th 2020. which was pretty good going ... The sentence sounds as if Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry, Marcel Proust and Susie Dent were pertrited and then incarsted into an AI’s gulalogium before being erusculated out again ... Dr.

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The Irish Times view on 1990s nostalgia: don’t look back in anger

The Irish Times 30 Aug 2024

Nostalgia comes for everyone in the end ... But, as Marcel Proust knew, the true bittersweet pleasure of nostalgia derives from contemplation of one’s own vanished youth and, by implication, one’s mortality ... Jack Charlton and Riverdance ... READ MORE ... .

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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Andrew Lloyd Webber

The Daily Mail 29 Aug 2024

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Coronation anthem Make a Joyful Noise reportedly reduced King Charles to 'goosebumps and tears' ... Errollyn ticked more boxes ... She thought Proust's novel opened with Marcel getting up early, instead of getting to bed early.' ... .

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The books I will (not) read

Philenews 22 Aug 2024

Perhaps it’s because it’s a holiday season and we have some days for relaxation ... My own list of unfinished books includes In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, a masterpiece I acknowledge, but I just don’t have the stamina for.

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Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering Jewish papercut artist, a circus clown on a humanitarian mission

Jewish Telegraph Agency 21 Aug 2024

“That’s the work of my hands.” ... 8, 2016 ... Somehow, the experience inspired his affection for Marcel Proust, and early in his career, Wolitz was principally known as a scholar of French literature and especially of the work of the French-Jewish writer.

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R.I.P. Alain Delon, French superstar of Le Samouraï

AV Club 18 Aug 2024

“Mr ... I’ve been doing it forever ... He won his first and only César Award in 1985 for Our History, in which Delon plays an alcoholic attempting to find a woman with whom he shared a one-night, and starred in an adaptation of Marcel Proust’s Swann In Love.

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Experts reveal the seven odd behaviors linked to have a high IQ

The Daily Mail 13 Aug 2024

Some of the greatest minds, such as Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin, exhibited strange behaviors like solitude and burning the midnight oil ... Many brilliant minds have been known to have nocturnal habits, including Darwin and Marcel Proust ... .

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Why traveling back to your past — to where you started — is so powerful

San Diego Union-Tribune 12 Aug 2024

It is the true dog days of summer, and I am going to indulge in a bit of a travelogue with a side order of reminiscence. Recently, Ms ... But if you want to mine that thought a bit more, try Marcel Proust, “Remembrance of Things Past.” All seven volumes ... .

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50 best friend quotes to remind you how beautiful friendship really is

Daily Messenger 12 Aug 2024

Love can come in many forms, whether it be romantic, platonic or a combination of both ... They say actions speak louder than words ... – G ... – Marcel Proust"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart."

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The Years: an audacious adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece of memoir and sociology

The Conversation 09 Aug 2024

Eline Arbo’s production of The Years at London’s Almeida Theatre is a rare triumph ... As Ernaux’s allusions to Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time indicate, The Years is in large part about memory and forgetting ... Sign up here ... .

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Stop and read: Pope praises spiritual value of literature and poetry

Catholic Standard 06 Aug 2024

Every Christian, but especially seminarians, should set aside their screens regularly and spend time with a book of literature or poetry, Pope Francis said ... Lewis, Marcel Proust and Jorge Luis Borges and texts by Jesuit Father Karl Rahner, St ... ....

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Boredom is the mother of creativity

Korea Times 06 Aug 2024

By Esther Kim ... His point confused me as a 20-year-old college student ... Stevens meant mortality makes life and art beautiful ... Boredom is the mother of creativity ... Marcel Proust’s many maladies led him to meditate on madeleines from his sick bed ... .