Marcel Proust
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In memory of that man Writing something about you is like Trying to make a swim through a sea, Through wave after wave ...
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Sophia (wisdom) She emerged from the bus right in front of us gracefully flowed into the park and though it was gett... -
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Carluigi was inspired to paint this by his reading of "À la recherche du temps perdu," by Marcel Proust, which was published in 7 parts betweeen 1913 and 1927. He began work on it by 1909, when was 38, but he died in 1922 before finishing it; his brother Robert revised the drafts of the last 3 novels. (In 1922 C. K. Scott Moncrieff began publishing his English translation, calling it "Remembrance of Things Past," but in 1930 he died at 40 before finishing the last volume; the final book was variously translated at different times. His work was revised in 1981 by Terence Kilmartin and again in 1992 by D. J. Enright, who retitled it "In Search of Lost Time.") The 1st volume, "Du côté de chez Swann," was turned down by several publishers, including Gallimard, but Grasset agreed to put it out if Proust paid the actual publishing costs. Gallimard offered to do the remaining volumes, but Proust rejected the offer. Volume 2 ("À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs") was scheduled to come out in 1914, but Grasset entered the French army during World War I, and his company closed. Gallimard published it in 1919, and it garned Proust the Prix Goncourt (awarded to the author of "the ebst and most imaginative prose work of the year"). "Sodome et Gomorrhe" was published in 2 volumes in 1921-1922, the last part that Proust supervised; he notoriously kept revising his work evan after it was "finished." The material in volume 5 ("La Prisonnière") was developed during the hiatus between the 1st and 2nd volumes, ending the original plan for a trilogy. That story was continued in "Albertine disparue" and was editorially the most difficult to complete; more authoritative versions were published in 1954 and 1987, after a late Proust manuscript had been discovered that deleted 150 pages. Much of the final volume "Le Temps retrouvé" was written at the same time as the 1st but revised to account for the changes wrought by the new material that arose during the war. The novels deal with "involuntsry memory," a term which he coined though the phenomenon had been studied by Hermann Ebbinghaus and discussed in his book "Über das Gedächtnis" (On Memory) in 1885, in which he wrote that sometimes the conciousness of memory "is lacking, and we know only indirectly that the 'now' must be identical with the 'then'; yet we receive in this way a no less valid proof for its existence during the intervening time."
ReplyDeleteVERY GOOD EXPLICATION.
ReplyDeleteI THINK THAT PAINTING AS THE CINEMATOGRAPHY MUST BE ALSO INSPIRED BY LITERATURE...