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#Proust2023

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Mark Alexander<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a> Finished! Pause to note that as with volume 1, this one turned out to be translated by someone already on my radar -- Ian Patterson, aka Mr Jenny Diski.</p>
Mark Alexander<p>And volume 6 of <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a>, The Fugitive:</p>
Mark Alexander<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a> reached the two shorties this month: The Prisoner and The Fugitive. Highlights first of The Prisoner:</p>
Mark Alexander<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a> entering the home stretch: volume 4, Sodom and Gomorrah this month. Translated by John Sturrock.</p><p>Lots of dodgy gay politics:</p><p>By dint of having tender thoughts about men, we become a woman and a false skirt impedes our steps.</p>
Mark Alexander<p>Highlights of The Guermantes Way (Volume 3 of) <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a>.</p><p>Marcel on art:</p><p>his playing is that of so great a pianist that you forget completely that the performer is a pianist</p>
Mark Alexander<p>Nova Hellas: Stories from Future Greece—ed. Francesca T Barbini and Francesco Verso tr. Dimitra Nikolaidou et al.<br />Ein simpler Eingriff—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/YaelInokai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YaelInokai</span></a><br />In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MarcelProust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarcelProust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/JamesGrieve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JamesGrieve</span></a></p>
Mark Alexander<p>Thoughts on volume 2 of Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a></p>
Mark Alexander<p>Getting Lost—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AnnieErnaux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AnnieErnaux</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AlisonLStrayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlisonLStrayer</span></a><br />Numa Roumestan—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AlphonseDaudet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlphonseDaudet</span></a> tr. Charles de Kay<br />Simultan—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/IngeborgBachmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IngeborgBachmann</span></a><br />In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ChristopheBlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristopheBlain</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ElizabethBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ElizabethBell</span></a><br />The Way by Swann&#39;s—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MarcelProust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarcelProust</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/LydiaDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LydiaDavis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a></p>
Mark Alexander<p>January reading: nine books, mostly French-style!</p><p><a href="https://t.co/zAUI4WWibS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.co/zAUI4WWibS</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Getting Lost—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AnnieErnaux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AnnieErnaux</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AlisonLStrayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlisonLStrayer</span></a><br />Numa Roumestan—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AlphonseDaudet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlphonseDaudet</span></a> tr. Charles de Kay<br />Simultan—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/IngeborgBachmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IngeborgBachmann</span></a><br />In the Kitchen with Alain Passard—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ChristopheBlain" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristopheBlain</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ElizabethBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ElizabethBell</span></a><br />The Way by Swann&#39;s—<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MarcelProust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarcelProust</span></a> tr. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/LydiaDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LydiaDavis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a></p>
Mark Alexander<p>Highlights of the second and final parts of The Way by Swann&#39;s -- <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a></p><p>A lot of the second part was hard to read because of the awfulness of the Verdurins; it was a welcome relief when Swann was exiled!</p><p>More perceptive psychology:</p><p>At an earlier time one dreamed of possessing the heart of the woman with whom one was in love; later, to feel that one possesses a woman’s heart may be enough to make one fall in love with her.</p>
Mark Alexander<p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Proust2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Proust2023</span></a> Half-way point in reading The Way by Swann&#39;s; some highlights so far.</p><p>I&#39;m reading the Lydia Davis translation in the Prendergast series, and I&#39;ve just realised that this is the same Lydia Davis who writes the amazing, tiny stories I&#39;ve been reading as a break from Proust.</p><p>Also a surprise: Swann has a mullet (&quot;a new hairstyle which consisted of wearing the hair in a crew-cut in front and longer in the back.&quot; in Davis&#39; note.)</p><p>The grocer in Combray is called Camus.</p>
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