I noted long ago a common misconception about Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Put simply, people seem to… Read more Proust: In Search of the Present
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The Biblical Alex Ferguson
For someone not raised as a practising Christian, a first encounter with the Bible is almost inevitably an anti-climax. If… Read more The Biblical Alex Ferguson
Proust and Derrida: Part III – Proust’s Aesthetic Theory
See Part I and Part II. Proust’s Aesthetic Theory Except, of course, that it cannot. To think the event and… Read more Proust and Derrida: Part III – Proust’s Aesthetic Theory
Proust and Derrida: Part II
(For Part I, see here) Cliché What on earth does all this have to do with clichés? To answer this… Read more Proust and Derrida: Part II
Cliché: Proust and Derrida
In a conversation between Tom McCarthy and Lee Rourke, published in today’s Guardian, and brought to my attention by Steve… Read more Cliché: Proust and Derrida
Response to Mitchelmore: The Guilt of Modernism
It is only after a third, close reading of Steve Mitchelmore’s recent essay (see yesterday’s post) that I have come… Read more Response to Mitchelmore: The Guilt of Modernism
Javier Marías & Proust
On Proust and Javier Marías