proust

Nowadays you don't become an expert in lit, you become an expert in Shakespeare or Proust or Dostoevsky.

But it can be a good choice for streams-of-consciousness; Marcel Proust is a good example of it.

Reading Proust will help somebody who sits on the sidelines take in the scene of somebody's neurological condition degrading.

In it he explains how to become a happier person by reading Proust for a big public.

But does he think his kids will chose to read Proust if they are denied anything fun to read?

Cormac McCarthy famously said he didn't read Proust or Pound, because to him that wasn't literature, and it wasn't what he wanted to write.

The Marcel Proust of the 21st century needs to write a tragic....

Not sure why: it is ok to not read books, it is ok to not have read Proust or Celine, it is ok to be very picky.

The paper quotes Proust with a straight face.

Hell, many people consider Joyce and Proust tedious.

Neurologists save lives, people who sit in armchairs cherishing Proust may enrich themselves but they have no grounds to look down upon those who are getting their hands dirty.

In general, I'd recommend to read some Proust as his style is completely against the current trend of short, direct sentences à la Hemingway, and that can be refreshing!

I once picked up de Botton's "How Proust can change your Life" in an airport impulse purchase; found it disappointing.

His greatest success is "How Proust can change your life".

> "have no grounds to look down upon those who are getting their hands dirty." Reading Proust isn't getting your hands dirty?

For example, FTA: > [Tim Parks] enlisted the example of his own children’s reading habits, and those of his young students, to argue that there is little evidence to suggest that readers will make progress “upward from pulp to Proust.” Well, maybe not.

Yes, it's a terribly interesting field, but you'll learn more about the human mind from reading Proust.

Balzac, Proust, Dostoeyvsky– all of them did this whole agonizing woe-is-me thing, or represented it powerfully in their work.

Proust took caffeine tablets and then took strong sleeping tablets to get to sleep.