In this latest memoir installment, I look at the friendships in my life that revolved around literature.
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Tag Archives: Marcel Proust
My Friendships Grounded in Literature
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged C.S. Lewis, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hardy Boys, Herman Hesse, In Search of Lost Time, Jane Austen, Leaps of Faith, Northanger Abbey, Paul Hunter, Siddhartha, Silver Chair, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Comments closed
Stream of Consciousness’ Healing Powers
In “Wonderworks” Fletcher explains the therapeutic effects of stream of consciousness, Virginia Woolf’s especially.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Angus Fletcher, Henry James, James Joyce, Mrs. Dalloway, stream of consciousness, Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, Wonderworks Comments closed
How Proust Saved a Prisoner’s Soul
In an intense search for meaning, prisoner Daniel Genis finally found it in Proust.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "To Alithea from Prison", Epictetus, Ice Age, In Search of Lost Time, Jean Paul Sartre, Margaret Drabble, meaning of life, No Exit, reading in prison, Richard Lovelace, Stoicism Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Childhood, Chris Mayfield, Gilberte Swann, In Search of Lost Time Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Absalom Absalom!, In Search of Lost Time, poverty programs, Swann's Way, White working class resentment, William Faulkner Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged In Search of Lost Time, literary characters, Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story, Walter Benjamin Comments closed