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Time Regained
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Wow, Proust kills it with this last book in his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time. He pulls it all together. I loved Proust's reflections on literary and artistic creation, reality, memory, pain, death and time -- and how in 'Time Regained' he draws all his themes together.
I'm almost sad my stroll with Proust is over. There are few books I've ever wanted to start reading again immediately after finishing. Today as I was setting down 'Time Regained', I almost reached for 'Swann's Way'. I feel like there was so much I missed, whole parts and pages I just didn't get in the beginning; gems that dropped between the pages of my cognition. At the same time, I think THAT VERY loss/regret is the essence and core of Proust: the recognition that in the end, his novel is just us writing ourselves. My same need or desire to go back and read 'In Search of Lost Time' again is similar to my desire to go back into my own past and re-experience my youth with the knowledge I have now. It is a futile, but a very human desire. It is an impulse created by recognizing the expanse and limitations of time and memory. The genius of Proust is his ability to transport the reader to that point where we recognize the art within our own lives at the intersection of our memory and immediate experiences.
I'm almost sad my stroll with Proust is over. There are few books I've ever wanted to start reading again immediately after finishing. Today as I was setting down 'Time Regained', I almost reached for 'Swann's Way'. I feel like there was so much I missed, whole parts and pages I just didn't get in the beginning; gems that dropped between the pages of my cognition. At the same time, I think THAT VERY loss/regret is the essence and core of Proust: the recognition that in the end, his novel is just us writing ourselves. My same need or desire to go back and read 'In Search of Lost Time' again is similar to my desire to go back into my own past and re-experience my youth with the knowledge I have now. It is a futile, but a very human desire. It is an impulse created by recognizing the expanse and limitations of time and memory. The genius of Proust is his ability to transport the reader to that point where we recognize the art within our own lives at the intersection of our memory and immediate experiences.
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November 15, 2013
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November 17, 2013
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November 17, 2013
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"An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates, and what we call reality is a certain connection between these immediate sensations and the memories which envelop us simultaneously with them -- a connection that is suppressed in a simple cinematographic vision, which just because it professes to confine itself to the truth in fact departs widely from it --"
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"Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not that same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon."
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The last of the Proust! Enjoy!And that letter is a riot. Oh Proust.
The book is starting to swarm with emotional, intellectual, and experiential energy. You can feel Proust near a climax. IT is like the last movement of a great classical piece. The book feels like all his themes and fugues are twisting together, increasing in tempo, and taking a firmer shape: page by page. Every page seems filled to the margins with gems and stones built to this huge monument.
Proustitute wrote: "Now you know why there are so many of us who are almost always re-reading Proust, or, if not doing so at present, thinking when next the adventure will begin again!..."Yes, and I'm pissed because there was a part of me that wants a uniformity to Proust and my hobbling together the Viking + Modern Library left me wanting to read the last 3 Viking/Penguin editions. Damn Bono/Disney.
Maybe in 2019+ I'll read the first four in the Modern Library version and the Last three in the Penguin. There are endless ways I can now mismatch the translations.
Congratulations on finishing the first stage of your journey.
Thanks Ian. I look forward to reading more of your reviews.
I know the feeling of wanting to re-read. I'm planning to start all over in January!
18 May 1888
Thursday evening.
My dear little grandfather,
I appeal to your kindness for the sum of 13 francs that I wished to ask Mr. Nathan for, but which Mama prefers I request from you. Here is why. I so needed to see if a woman could stop my awful masturbation habit that Papa gave me 10 francs to go to a brothel. But first, in my agitation, I broke a chamber pot: 3 francs; then, still agitated, I was unable to screw. So here I am, back to square one, waiting more and more as hours pass for 10 francs to relieve myself, plus 3 francs for the pot. But I dare not ask Papa for more money so soon and so I hoped you could come to my aid in a circumstance which, as you know, is not merely exceptional but also unique. It cannot happen twice in one lifetime that a person is too flustered to screw.
I kiss you a thousand times and dare to thank you in advance.
I will be home tomorrow morning at 11am. If you are moved by my situation and can answer my prayers, I will hopefully find you with the amount. Regardless, thank you for your decision which I know will come from a place of friendship.
Marcel.