theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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Proust examines the relationship between desire and fulfillment.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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“…in the communal life that is led by our ideas in the enclosure of our minds, there is a single one of those that makes us most happy which has not first sought, like a real parasite, and won from an alien but neighboring idea the greater part of the strength that it originally lacked” - Proust
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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Proust isn’t offering a solution or a philosophy but exploring the ideas of both. The point, though, is that our actions and words might have effects that reach farther than we can predict.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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It is almost like desire creates a reality but also makes that reality impossible to exist until the desire itself is discarded.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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A person is not themselves alone but a combination of their self and the self in the mind of the person thinking about them.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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Proust certainly felt strongly about his work, but there is a reverence for the past that feels so unusual and fresh. Proust isn’t saying that innovation in terminology is right or wrong. I think he’s just showing that he understands that point of view.
It’s not about being right or wrong. It’s about exploring different points of view as an avenue for creating interesting characters.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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The comedy in Proust is often missed, but there can be no doubt that Proust is making fun of himself here. Proust’s reputation is snobbish and serious, but it’s hard to see where that reputation came from when you are actually reading his work.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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Whether it is seeing a view from Horsetooth Reservoir with a new love, or watching a favorite comedy with a group of friends. It’s almost as if art can’t truly be appreciated without sharing it. Art and literature is not meant to be enjoyed in isolation. Sharing them further reveals their depths.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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Proust is not afraid to judge his characters when necessary, but he is always fair. He does not see it as wrong or bad to have interests other than his own. Norpois is not being judged here for getting pleasure out of a discussion about stocks. In fact, Norpois’ pleasure is felt by Marcel. He is able to connect with Norpois’ passion.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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The crowd, however, finds something worth celebrating and applauds enthusiastically when they are supposed to. Marcel tries to feel what they feel: “I greedily imbibed the rough wine of this popular enthusiasm. Nevertheless, when the curtain had fallen for the last time, I was disappointed that the pleasure for which I had so longed had not been greater”(29).
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“But what I demanded from this performance… was something quite different from pleasure: verities pertaining to a world more real than that in which I lived, which, once acquired, could never be taken from me again by any trivial incident”(17).
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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This closes on the central struggle in the novel: Will Marcel become the writer he desires to be? There are others, of course, but this is the central question that the entire series rests upon.
His father encourages him to write something to show Norpois, who might show it to “the editor of the Deux-Mondes”, so Marcel tries to write something worthy.
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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“… she was paying a delicate compliment to her husband when she spoke admiringly of the diplomat… By reinforcing in my father’s mind the good opinion that he already had of M. de Norpois, and so inducing him (Marcel’s father) to form a good opinion of himself also, she knew that she was carrying out that wifely duty which consisted in making life pleasant and comfortable for her husband”
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theanti-litsnob · @theantilitsnob
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It is a joy to be back with Proust.
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