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Jacqueline Rose on Marcel Proust

2/10/2013

 
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  • Proust both coveted and despised the society in which he lived.
  • À la recherche du temps perdu is a 'feminist Gothic horror story'.
  • The scene in which Vinteuil's daughter commits an act of Sadeism by spitting on a photograph of her parents sets up the whole novel.
  • No one does primal scenes quite like Proust...
  • The hypocricy, social fussiness, dizzy ascent and subsequent precipitous decline are all symptoms of social upheaval.
  • After attending Zola's trial, Proust asked himself how to introduce history and social justice into À la recherche du temps perdu without destroying it.
  • Proust was a total snob, but his book is an analysis of snobbery.
  • Proust's mother was Jewish but he was baptized as a Catholic.
  • The 'intermittencies of the heart' section of Volume Four: Sodom and Gomorrah is the greatest ever piece of writing on grief.

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