Modern Library paperback edition of Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.
I finally completed my set of these smaller format paperbacks of Modern Library's SEARCH.
I always wanted to get them all because, well, I am a completist I guess, and that SWANN'S WAY on the left there is the first Proust I read back in 2003, the life changer that led me onto this path.
#Proust
I’m no translator but this I believe: if the original does not contain a sentence fragment that obviously slipped past the proofreader and your #translation does, you’re wrong. #Proust #Proustsky
#Zola helped deliver this measure of justice, complete even if long-delayed, to Alfred #Dreyfus. #Proust #Proustsky
"My grandmother sensed I was far away and miserable, and decided she could forgo her strict ‘principles’ about child rearing and surrender to an outpouring of tenderness she usually nipped in the bud or concealed." The Guermantes Way, tr. Peter Bush. 🧵(2/2) #Proust #Proustsky
Happy birthday, Laurette Taylor, seen here cosplaying the Narrator's grand-mère. 😉 "…as it reached me in isolation, with no distracting facial features, I discovered how gentle her voice sounded, perhaps more than ever." The Guermantes Way, tr. Peter Bush. #Proust #Proustsky
Math-loving #Proust readers (and Proust-reading mathematicians, I guess) are grateful. ♥️ Scott Moncrieff, Kilmartin, and Enright didn't get it, and neither did Treharne and Prendergast. Of course, Davis got it but probably only because she loves cognates. 🤣 #Proustsky 🧵2/2
#Proust was no mathematician but he knew math. When he wrote of a condition in this sense, he knew that it was necessary, sufficient, neither, or both, and that these are the only two modifiers that apply—nécessaire and suffisante. @academic.oup.com's Brian Nelson and Adam Watt seem to get it. 🧵1/2
#RogerShattuck: Life cannot be dispensed with and cannot be taught; it must be lived. One has to find out for oneself, and what one comes to is a "point of view" on one's own experience. Here lies true wisdom. #Proust #Proustsky
Yet again rereading #RogerShattuck, leading me back to this favourite passage. The Narrator has figured out that Miss Sacripant is Odette and asks Elstir is he is Monsieur Biche. Elstir gives an unapologetic, big-hearted, instructive response, tr. @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social. #Proust #Proustsky
The Proust Center at Jefferson Market Library (NYPL) offers free #Proust reading groups.
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Here is Louis Harnett O'Meara facilitating "Swann's Way" for first-time readers (January-Jue 2026).
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"I wanted to show the pure, the religious, atmosphere of moral beauty in which this explosion of madness and blood took place, spattering the scene without soiling it." #Proust
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It is fascinating to read #Proust 's 75 Folios. In "An Evening in the Countryside" we get a very early version of The Bedtime Kiss; the writing is much more raw, telegraphing the mother's death (later transposed to the grandmother), and...Marcel has a little brother (as in fact he did in real life)!
Coucou je donne une cinquantaine de livres sur #Proust #MarcelProust cause déménagement. Critique variée. A retirer dans Paris avec un bon caddie... M’écrire en privé svp.
...if there are transitions
between forgetting and remembering,
then these transitions are unconscious.
Proust ~ Sodom and Gomorrah
📷Kaoru Yamada
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the moment of apocalypse, when even stars no longer keep their places? And those sirens, weren’t they Wagnerian?” 5/5 p 71 #Proust #FindingTimeAgain
do as they are coming down, he said. I agree that the moment they take off are very beautiful, when they join together in star-like formation, and obey laws as precise as the ones that govern the constellations, for the thing that strikes you as a marvelous sight 3/5 #Proust
In the silence of the night which suddenly contained a “real” display with rockets that were both useful and protective, bugle calls that were not just sounding for parade etc I talked about the beauty of the airplanes as they climb into the night. “And perhaps they are even more 2/5 #Proust
of contact with mystery is to increase, if that be possible, our sense of the insignificance of what was said. It was with this in mind that I approached Robert, who still had a scar 4/5 #Proust 💙
On Saint-Loup, soldiers, from the front: “And indeed it was not that they came simply from places that seemed unreal to us because we had only heard of them through the newspapers, and therefore could not imagine how these men could have taken part in those titanic battles and returned 1/5 #Proust
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Compare that with Lydia Davis, who is happy to render "infrangible" as "infrangible" (Swann's Way). 😂 🧵(2/2) #Proust #Proustsky #translation
“Dread” works better as a #translation for "effroi"; "alarm" seems a bit much. Score one more for Peter Bush, who seems to have a knack for word choices that feel right—contextually, if not literally. 🧵(1/2) #Proust #Proustsky
D'une verrerie éphémère Sans fleurir la veillée amère Le col ignoré s'interrompt. Je crois bien que deux bouches n'ont Bu, ni son amant ni ma mère, Jamais à la même Chimère, Moi, sylphe de ce froid plafond ! Le pur vase d'aucun breuvage Que l'inexhaustible veuvage Agonise mais ne consent, Naïf baiser des plus funèbres ! A rien expirer annonçant Une rose dans les ténèbres.
The third poem, Surgi de la croupe et du bond, was dedicated to Erik Satie. See alt-text for text. 🧵(5/5) #Mallarme #Ravel #Proust #Proustsky
Princesse ! à jalouser le destin d’une Hébé Qui poind sur cette tasse au baiser de vos lèvres, J’use mes feux mais n’ai rang discret que d’abbé Et ne figurerai même nu sur le Sèvres. Comme je ne suis pas ton bichon embarbé, Ni la pastille, ni du rouge, ni jeux mièvres Et que sur moi je sais ton regard clos tombé, Blonde dont les coiffeurs divins sont des orfèvres ! Nommez-nous … toi de qui tant de ris framboisés Se joignent en troupeau d’agneaux apprivoisés Chez tous broutant les vœux et bêlant aux délires, Nommez-nous … pour qu’Amour ailé d’un éventail M’y peigne flûte aux doigts endormant ce bercail, Princesse, nommez-nous berger de vos sourires.
The second poem, Placet futile, was dedicated to Florent Schmitt. See alt-text for text. 🧵(4/5) #Mallarme #Ravel #Proust #Proustsky
Mon âme vers ton front où rêve, ô calme soeur, Un automne jonché de taches de rousseur, Et vers le ciel errant de ton oeil angélique Monte, comme dans un jardin mélancolique, Fidèle, un blanc jet d’eau soupire vers l’Azur ! – Vers l’Azur attendri d’Octobre pâle et pur Qui mire aux grands bassins sa langueur infinie Et laisse, sur l’eau morte où la fauve agonie Des feuilles erre au vent et creuse un froid sillon, Se traîner le soleil jaune d’un long rayon.
The first poem, Soupir, was dedicated to Igor Stravinsky. See alt-text for poem text. 🧵(3/5) #Mallarme #Ravel #Proust #Proustsky
Trois poèmes de #Mallarmé by Maurice #Ravel. See alt-texts for poem texts. 🧵(2/5) #Proust #Proustsky
Happy birthday, Stéphane #Mallarmé. Grand-mère found dread and weariness (Bush), alarm and exhaustion (CKSM, Treharne), "effroi" and "fatigue" (Proust) inseparable from his late poems. Heads-up: one of these comes from the year before his death. 😉 Music by Maurice #Ravel. 🧵(1/5) #Proust #Proustsky
