“So manifold are our interests in life that it is not uncommon, on the self same occasion, for the foundations of a happiness which does not yet exist to be laid down simultaneously with the aggravation of a grief from which we are still suffering.” #MarcelProust #SwannsWay

Delightful from #Proust (#SwannsWay #Combray):
« In the next room I could hear my aunt talking quietly to herself. She never spoke save in low tones, because she believed that there was something broken in her head and floating lose there ».
#Materialism #Mind #Literature

I’ve always been slightly surprised that #Proust takes such a #materialistic view of such phenomena as smells, and recollections. Worth comparing #SwannsWay from #Combray with #Bernanos’ outstanding grim description: « Ma paroisse est dévorer par l’ennui » (a kind of lifeless, ‘cancerous’ boredom, or spiritual indirection). We shouldn’t forget #GeorgesBernanos for all sorts of reasons.

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#neuroscience

#writing

Psychologically speaking: your brain on writing.

Zoe Andres

Writing and Communication Centre

U. of Waterloo, Ontario

April 2019

Since starting #SwannsWay by #Proust, I've been searching around the novel in ever increasing circles, looking for anything that might in any way connect with In Search of Lost Time. This article is not very connected, but it does talk about the brain and the experienced writer, which is interesting.

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https://uwaterloo.ca/writing-and-communication-centre/blog/psychologically-speaking-your-brain-writing
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@Gazza90

Hi Gary,

If you've got past the 100 prologue you've achieved something! It get's 'better' once you get beyond that.

Just chatting, but I don't see why one would not cheat a bit and scan that section to get an overview of the content, and move on to the next bit.

Have you thought of using an audiobook as well? I've gone for read & audio, ending up mostly audio & am 3/4 way in after a month. The Audible audiobook of the original Moncrieff is first rate.

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A facsimile of James Grieve's 1982 translation of Swann's Way. When the pdf is loaded it shows 180pp. but panic not, it's actually pp. 346. The facsimile has been scanned 2 pages at a time évidemment....).

Heading towards an original Moncrieff vs. James Grieve vs. Lydia Davis using the most entertaining sections of the Verdurins to see what's what. Cheating, its searches of e-versions with Davis book open...

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https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/143006/1/Grieve%20J%20Marcel%20Proust%20%201982.pdf
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@RalphBrooker

Hi,

There are many sources on this lit. scandal but it would be good to read this.

Is there an English translation of it? Or a text version that can be roughly translated with an online translator?

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I'm not much gone on involuntary memory. Most of the stuff we trawl up from the subconscious seems to be stimulated by something.

Proust must mean as we go about our lives, acting, talking seeing, thinking, things sudden pop up. That is unquestionably true.

Going by my own recollections - involuntary or willed - they are mostly visual, not olfactory or auditory - to be expected as vision is the predominant sense, reflected in the large vision area in the brain.

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I'm not much gone on involuntary memory. Most of the stuff we trawl up from the subconscious seems to be stimulated by something.

Proust must mean as we go about our lives, acting, talking seeing, thinking, things sudden pop up. That is unquestionably true.

Going by my own recollections - involuntary or willed - they are mostly visual, not olfactory or auditory - to be expected as vision is the predominant sense, reflected in the large vision area in the brain.

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#SwannsWay

The Guermantes Way and The Meseglise
Way

"But, above all, I set between them, far more distinctly than the mere distance in miles and yards and inches which separated one from the other, the distance that there was between the two parts of my brain in which I used to think of them, one of those distances of the mind which time serves only to lengthen, which separate things irremediably from one another, keeping them for ever upon different planes..."

Sending you Mme Verdurin energy in turning down New Year's invitations.

(From James Grieve's forthcoming translation of Swann's Way.)

#proust #swannsway #frenchliteratureintranslation #verdurin #newyearseve #newyearsday #invitations

James Grieve's dedication to his translation of Swann's Way (which we are publishing spring 2023). #proust #swannsway #translation #frenchliterature

Article (GillesHeuré) about the controversial award of the 1919 #PrixGoncourt to #Proust, « A L’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs », published by then #NRF), rather than to #anciencombattant #Dorgelès, « Les Croix de bois ». The award broke with a wartime tradition seeing the prize going to #soldiers (R. Benjamin, #Barbusse, #Malherbe, #Duhamel) and was seen as a trumping of the worker class by the effete #bourgeoisie, the #salon class. Revenge for not winning in 1913, #SwannsWay (brilliant).

Article (GillesHeuré) about the controversial award of the 1919 #PrixGoncourt to #Proust, « A L’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs », published by then #NRF), rather than to #anciencombattant #Dorgelès, « Les Croix de bois ». The award broke with a wartime tradition seeing the prize going to #soldiers (R. Benjamin, #Barbusse, #Malherbe, #Duhamel) and was seen as a trumping of the worker class by the effete #bourgeoisie, the #salon class. Revenge for not winning in 1913, #SwannsWay (brilliant).

“The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of Intellect, in some material object ... of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.” #MarcelProust #SwannsWay

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“The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience.” #MarcelProust #SwannsWay

“For a man cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to obey the dictates of the self which he has ceased to be.” #MarcelProust #SwannsWay

“She belonged to that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.” #MarcelProust #SwannsWay