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Involuntary Memory: July 2006
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Monday, July 31, 2006. All the Way to Combray. Having made it through Combray, several questions formed in reflection are eager to appear here, in the hope of finding answers to accompany them. We probably don't yet know the answers, but might hold these questions in mind as we continue our journey, witnessing Swann in Love. Involuntary memory is meant to signify recollections which come unbidden to mind. ...
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Involuntary Memory: August 2007
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Monday, August 20, 2007. On finishing In Search of Lost Time. I want to write just a few words about finishing Proust’s. In Search of Lost Time. This is a question that has lingered from the very first volume when it becomes clear that Marcel has an interest in, and perhaps a talent for, writing. The answer the book provides is satisfying, and realistic, given everything that has happened up until that poi...
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Involuntary Memory: January 2009
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Friday, January 02, 2009. The End of the Guermantes Way. It has taken me over two years to finish the first volume of Moncrieff's translation. Of course I have read any number of books in between; not every minute was spent on Proust. But who reads a book for over two years? Is anyone else still reading this monumental work? Posted by Quillhill at 4:58 AM. Links to this post. The End of the Guermantes Way.
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Involuntary Memory: June 2006
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Friday, June 30, 2006. My normal reading habit is to settle into bed with my book at the end of the day. The normal result is that I read maybe two pages and then fall asleep. If I'm determined to read a long work, such as a 1,000-plus page novel, I have to devote other, more wakeful, times of the day to the effort. His masterpiece with his narrator going to sleep. In minute detail. Links to this post. Assisti...
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Involuntary Memory: The End of the Guermantes Way
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Friday, January 02, 2009. The End of the Guermantes Way. It has taken me over two years to finish the first volume of Moncrieff's translation. Of course I have read any number of books in between; not every minute was spent on Proust. But who reads a book for over two years? Is anyone else still reading this monumental work? Posted by Quillhill at 4:58 AM. I Have Blue Roses. I just began about a month ago....
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Involuntary Memory: October 2006
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Tuesday, October 10, 2006. Cross-posted at So Many Books. I am moving along through In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. I am not moving along as fast as I would like, but even slow is good considering after finishing Swann's Way. The young narrator (early teens? We never really know his age) loves the author Bergotte and has read everything of the author's that he's written. In Swann's Way. The Intermittan...
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Involuntary Memory: I am a laggard!
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Friday, December 01, 2006. I am a laggard! I am late, I know, running far behind the pack in the high cone of dust kicked up by all y'all's sandalled feet, but here I come, charging across the plains as I begin to flicker through the pages of Swann's Way in earnest. I just finished the Combray section, and was stunned, staggered, stupefied and electrified all at once by the following passage near the end:.
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Involuntary Memory: February 2007
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Tuesday, February 27, 2007. Cross posted at So Many Books. After a Proust hiatus I have finally jumped back in and it's like I never left. I'm on The Guermantes Way. One of the things I am enjoying most about In Search of Lost Time. One of his ideas that I have had flitting around in my brain regards names. In Swann's Way. In the second book, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower. And the name thing is only a...
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Involuntary Memory: Unrequited Love
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A group blog dedicated to the reading and discussion of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Tuesday, November 07, 2006. Now that the RIP Challenge is done and I don't have to worry about finishing The Fourth Bear. Then three pages later we return to the impossibility of fulfillment:. As well, in the time it takes for the other's heart to change, our own heart will be changing too; and when the fulfillment desired comes within our reach, we will desire it no longer. And I can't stop thinking about it.
