Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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fragments of works from the innovators of the narrative of the twentieth century: Proust Review learning


I have selected In Search of Lost Time a classic piece that has become a sort of topic: the of "Proust's madeleine."

In this passage, the fact of dipping a madeleine in an infusion raises the description of another time and another world of his childhood. This small gesture shows that small details can enclose a beautiful and magical evocation and power opens up a world of narrative possibilities.
Marcel Proust
pioneering a new way of writing, perhaps a little baroque, but exquisite, although the complex inner workings of this novel make it a difficult book, hard, (and not only for its size, more than 3000 pages or their delayed descriptions). The work is more than a novel is a life experience but your enjoyment is only available to experienced readers.


" lips I took a spoonful of tea in which he had thrown a piece of cupcake. But at the same moment that this drink, with crumbs of cake, touched my palate, I shuddered, my attention fixed into something extraordinary was happening inside me. An exquisite pleasure invaded me, isolated me, without any notion of what caused it ... "

" [...] As I recognized the taste of the piece of madeleine dipped in lime tea that my aunt gave me (although had not yet discovered, and take long to find out why this memory made me so much happiness), the old gray house with a facade to the street, where her room, wine as theater decor to fit into the garden pavilion behind the main factory was built for my parents, and where was this truncated canvas house I remembered only until then, and the people came home from the morning until the evening hours and at all times, the plaza, where they sent me before lunch, and the streets where he would run errands, and the roads were still when the weather was fine. And as the entertainment of the Japanese get into a pileup of porcelain pieces of paper, apparently, reports that in wet start to stretch, to take shape, in color and distinction, making flowers, houses, characters consistent and knowable, so now all the flowers in our garden and park of Mr. Swann and lilies of the Vivonne and the good people of the town and its tiny houses and the church and Combray whole and its surroundings, all that, people and gardens, which is taking shape and consistency, leaving my cup of tea ... "

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