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... group read, and although I've tried several times to read this novel I've been unsuccessful until now. I've become a Proust convert. I will only quote Nabokov's description of Proust's style:
"A tendency to fill in and stretch a sentence to its utmost breadth and length, to ... ... In Search of Lost Time for a year-long non-LT group read which is going very well so far. I've tried to read Proust before, but this time I've been captured. I hope I can stick with it. And I'm reading Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz for ... 56 - finished 8/26/2009
Title: Proust was a Neuroscientist
Author: Jonah Lehrer Would Proust be considered androgynous prose? And how do we relate the European Decadents? (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Rachilde, etc.)
DFW wrote an interesting essay about the "Phallocrats" in American lit (Bellow, Mailer, and Roth), talk about masculine prose.
Has anyone read ... ... the hell out of me. Good enough for a reread.
I see HJ's influence in everyone from Graham Greene, Nabokov, and Proust
Re: POAL, it is fascinating to read about wealthy descendants of rich bankers, especially in our current economic situation. Many were robber barons and ... ... about 10 chapters left of Portrait of a Lady and will finish it in time. James is up there with Vladimir Nabokov and Proust for characterization and scene-setting. He truly can see the shadings of the butterfly wings. I just finished Sherlock Holmes was Wrong by Pierre Bayard and am in the middle of Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer and Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as cartographer by Peter Turchi 14 - Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
I loved this book! Perhaps because I work in the Arts but am interested in science- what a fantastic take on truth. ... Century
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