Tag Archives: In Search of Lost Time

How Proust Saved a Prisoner’s Soul

In an intense search for meaning, prisoner Daniel Genis finally found it in Proust.

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Thrown by Proust into the Past

Reading about Gilberte in “Swann’s Way” has had me thinking a lot about a girl I knew in childhood.

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On Proust and Living Life to the Fullest

As I read Proust’s “Swann’s Way,” I imagined what it must have meant to a friend, who read it when he was dying.

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Reading Proust before Dying

A dying friend decided to read, in his last months, Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” As I read it, I’m beginning to understand why.

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Proust on Why the Poor Support the Rich

Why do White working-class GOP supporters support programs helping the rich? Proust and Faulkner have possible answers.

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Reading Proust as Lenten Observance

For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.

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Literary Characters, Mirrors of the Soul

Literary characters, according to Peter Brooks, help us understand “the most elusive and consequential issues of our limited human existence.

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Proust Understood Political Shifts

Strange new alliance have formed in response to Trumpism. Conservative David Frum points out that Marcel Proust described similar shifts in his day.

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The Brave New World of Twitterature

Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.

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