Tag Archives: Claude Mauriac

take five with the marquise

Disrupted momentum.  A plot, a narrative incident, a moment of the dramatic lending momentum to the whole: Precisely those elements mostly absent in our daily lives, replete as they are with what Walter Benjamin called “messy antics,” confused, shambling and … Continue reading

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between five and six: cruising with the marquise

The Marquise Went Out at Five. Claude Mauriac put together a fine conception, worked out with a skill that few novelists have the patience or the delicacy to apply.This concept of time that knows neither past, present nor future and … Continue reading

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five O’clock paris … one hour and one spot

The “experimental novel” of Claude Mauriac. The Marquise Went Out at Five. Paul Valery, asked why he never embarked on a novel said, “I could not bear to write down the words, ‘The Marquise Went Out At Five.’” A poet, … Continue reading

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