Chekhov's Mistress
In Search of Time to Read Proust
Just a quick note before signing off for the weekend.
I have to say that I’m a bit envious of Tito’s Proust Reading Group. Mostly because I wish I had time to go back and read Swann’s Way from the beginning. It is one of my absolute favorites and I feel as though my immortality is assured until the day I read the final page of the the last volume. I’m on volume II now, and that is patiently sitting on my shelf with a bookmark slicing the stubby volume in two. I can almost imagine, (if my books came alive like the paintings in Harry Potter), Marcel staring me down simultaneously from those six photos on each volume, doubtful of my intentions.
It seems like Marcel has been conspiring with others to pull me back in too. My brother-in-choice bought me a copy of The Proust Project for x-mas, a collection of essays commissioned by Andre Aciman, a professor of French and Comparative Literature at CUNY. Each essay is a reflection on a particular passage in ISOLT by writers like Alain de Botton (oh so forever associated with Proust), Lydia Davis, Richard Howard, Susan Minot, Colm Tóibín and Edmund White. It looks promising, but I probably won’t read it until I am back to M. Proust. We’ll have to see as I seem to never have any control over the path my reading takes me.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: January 07, 2005
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