Marcel Proust
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Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure. Parfois, à peine ma bougie éteinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je n'avais pas le temps de me dire : Je m'endors. Et, une demi-heure après, la pensée qu'il était temps de chercher le sommeil m'éveillait; je voulais poser le volume que je croyais avoir encore dans les mains et souffler ma lumière; je n'avais pas cessé en dormant de faire des réflexions sur ce que je venais de lire, mais...
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Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking crime involving Baron de Charlus. Later, at a reception given by the Prince de Guermates, his meditations on the passage of time lead to his determination to embark on his life's work at last.
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Extrait : "Mademoiselle Albertine est partie ! Comme la souffrance va plus loin en psychologie que la psychologie ! Il y a un instant, en train de m'analyser, j'avais cru que cette séparation sans s'être revus était justement ce que je désirais, et comparant la médiocrité des plaisirs que me donnait Albertine à la richesse des désirs qu'elle me privait de réaliser, je m'étais trouvé subtil, j'avais conclu que je ne voulais plus la voir,...
5) On reading
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Macmillan
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[1971]
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English
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"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them."
Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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2023.
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English
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"The seventy-five folios and other unpublished manuscripts contains early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's work and the "sacred moment" when his genius blossomed"--
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Random House Publishing Group
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2000
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English
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'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality . . . is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lythrum salicoria.———————————————————————————————————————————SAMUEL...
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In search of lost time volume 3
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Random House Publishing Group
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2000
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English
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"The Guermantes way" is the path that runs past the chateau belonging to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. It also represents the path into "the social kaleidoscope" traveled by Proust's narrator, which culminates in his introduction to the Paris salon of the Guermantes. The rich cast of characters in this third volume of In Search of Lost Time includes Robert de Saint-Loup, who is obsessed with the prostitute Rachel, and Baron...
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In search of lost time volume 2
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Random House Publishing Group
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2000
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English
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Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, and the fictional Normandy resort of Balbec...
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Random House Publishing Group
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2010
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English
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The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on...
20) L'indifferente
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SAGA Egmont
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2022
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Italiano
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"L'indifferente", originariamente incluso nell'opera "I piaceri e i giorni" (1896), venne poi ritirato dallo stesso Proust, prima di essere riscoperto, a distanza di ottant'anni, da Philip Kolb. Al centro della storia vi è l'amore contrastato fra la bella vedova Madeleine di Gouvres e l'ombroso Lepré. Quest'ultimo, infatti, si considera talmente indegno dei sentimenti della donna da non riuscire quasi a vederla. L'indifferenza del giovane ha un...