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MARGINALIA by Naomi Washer HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME III by Solvej Balle (tr. Sophia Herst Smith & Jennifer Russell) BETWEEN THE ACTS by Virginia Woolf MOURNING A BREAST by Xi Xi (tr. Jennifer Feeley) #NYRBWomen25 THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by Jazmina Barrera (tr. Christina MacSweeney) THE SILVER BOOK by Olivia Laing WHITE GIRLS by Hilton Al’s
Here are the books I finished in November. So many gems. I also still have Proust #AContinuation25 & several short story collections in circulation so here’s to a prolific reading month in December! #NYRBWomen25
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Is anyone continuing Proust in the new year? Turning #AContinuation25 into #AContinuation26?
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Doesn't Roland Barthes talk about the need to underline and copy favorite lines in books? Surely I'm not imagining this #AContinuation25
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Gonna finish Swann’s Way tonight.
Think I’ve enjoyed the pace here overall—probably going to take a week or two off for myself then move ahead at an informally similar pace on my own…
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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"Habit had come to take me in her arms and carry me all the way up to my bed like a little child."
(160)
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"...as in the arms of a long-lost father.
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"...then it was suddenly revealed to me that my own humble existence and the realms of the true were less widely separated than I had supposed, that at certain points they actually coincided, and in my newfound confidence and joy I had wept upon his printed page...
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“Huh, I wonder why I had so much trouble with this part every time I tried to speed read my way through the book—“
*smashes head first into a six-page paragraph that reads like an entire essay on a centrifuge spinning while racing along on a roller coaster track*
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Finished part two last night. Looking forward to trying to really crawl through part three starting this week.
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That said, I’m glad I think I’m coming out of that phase, and am getting back into a better routine, especially leading into part three of the book, which I feel like I’ve historically always most struggled with. Really hoping to use this project to really get it, this time.
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I had no idea Proust was so funny. His dinner parties are a joy to read. #AContinuation25
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Having myself a chuckle thinking about how well Proust would have done having to think about “tropes” in fiction… (p 300-301 of Enright)
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The Swann Way, transl. Brian Wilson #AContinuation25
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A bit of Proust. The bit I like: “How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had shipped his oars and lay flat on his back in the bottom of his boat, letting it drift with the current, seeing nothing but the sky gliding slowly by above him, his face aglow with a foretaste of happiness and peace!”
Sounds nice.
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Yes, but please skip Alain de Botton's How #Proust Can Change Your Life. #Proustsky #AContinuation25
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A new piece from Kate Briggs with translated excerpts of Bassette’s writing about ‘the Poetic Novel’ (& Barthes makes an appearance)!! #AContinuation25 (cc: @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social)
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Think I’m going to start responding to routine questions at work with serious Legrandin energy.
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I remembered there was a lot of asparagus in the book—my wife and I joked about it quite a bit when I was reading the book to baby number 2—but I completely forgot it had a bit of character importance. (Oh, Francoise!)
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(I’m starting to think this about Proust too) #AContinuation25
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From The Neutral: b. Outside the Field of Rationality A burst of brilliance of the kairos, of the moment in its pure status of exception, its absolute power of mutation = the satori (Zen word). Perhaps something like a Western example of satori: Proust's madeleine or, rather, the paving stones, the clinking, and the nap-kin: "Just as, at the moment when I tasted the madeleine, all anxiety about the future, all intellectual doubts had disappeared. "35 The Zen satori escapes the competence of language, thus of definition, and almost that of description; thus, literally, untranslatable, since
otherwise we would encounter Christian language: conversion, illu-mination, whereas the satori is not the descent in oneself of a truth, of a god, but rather a sudden opening into the void: "illumination" doesn't work because satori doesn't enlighten anything → contra-diction: clears up doubt but not to the benefit of a certainty. Satori: a kind of mental catastrophe that occurs in a single blow → experienced by Buddha under the Bodhi tree = nirvana brought about in the course of earthly life.
Roland Barthes on Proust's madeleine moment:
#AContinuation25, The Neutral
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Oh wonderful. I've been hoping for something like this during #AContinuation25. Haven't listened yet but just spot-checking some of the differences in translation is fascinating...
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The new season of The Critic and her Publics podcast is on translation and the first episode is a conversation on translating a sentence from Proust! #AContinuation25 @joiedevivre9.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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I'm turning a corner...but...my path is in my heart.
Marcel Proust, The Swann Way (transl. Brian Wilson) #AContinuation25
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Fell a slight bit behind this week but should catch up by tomorrow night.
Just read the Uncle Adolphe/“I loved the theater without ever having been” bit which I think has never failed to amuse any time I’ve read this first volume…
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