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There is nothing like life in a dank chateau to promote, in a growing girl, a taste for literature. …. We grieve for many; not least we grieve for unhappy, solitary maidens so intelligent as to be misfits in ordinary … Continue reading
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
In Marcel Proust’s ”Remembrance of Things Past”, there is a strong sense of familiarity making the narrator lose the sense of ecstasy he felt when the Faubourg was out of reach; that impenetrable social enclave on the right bank of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreyfus Affair, Faubourg Saint-Germain paris, French Literature, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Jean Beraud, Jean Beraut Art, Marcel Proust, Paris La Belle Epoque, Prince d'Orleans, Prince Troubetskoy, Remembrance of Things past
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GODLESS GOLDEN RULE
Marcel Proust’s Paris aristocracy: perpetually engaged for dinner, decorative, idle and dangerous for social climbers. In Proust’s ”Remembrance of Things Past” , what lent the aristocrats of the Faubourg Saint-Germain their luster was precisely their ”famous and poetic” names , … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund Wilson, Francois Mauriac, French Literature, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, George Painter, Harry Levin, Howard Moss, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, Marcel Proust
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THE WORLD IS NOT ABSURD
Increasingly since the Romantics, such as Chateubriand, the writer in France has presented that double image of timeless originator and commentator on the actual that French culture regards as the completeness of literary existence. The writer who came closest to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Camus, French Literature, French Philosophy, Jean Paul Sartre, Rene Chateaubriand, The Just Assasins Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus Camus, The Plague Camus, The Rebel Camus, The Stranger Camus
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CULTURAL PREROGATIVE
In no other country has the great writer received such adulation or the lesser one such respect. To write in France is to make a stake for glory, and ”la gloire” can be a very heady affair since they are … Continue reading
GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ‘‘Social Contract” was a theoretical blueprint for a society of equals.It was at once a return to original sin within a society of unequals.It was an apex for the planet of the apes of civilization.It was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Diderot, French Literature, Henry David Thoreau, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marxist, Matthias Grunewald, Oscar Wilde, Rousseau, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Voltaire
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A PIOUS SINNER AS NATIONAL INSTITUTION
In the early 1960’s, Chateaubriand received a tribute that demonstrates in its very extravagance, his enduring power. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre visited Saint-Malo on one of their many excursions. They liked the town, but Chateaubriand’s tomb, with … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Link, Charles Mackay, Chateaubriand, Claudia Moscovici, Counter-Enlightenment, Dostoevsky, Duc d'Enghien, French Literature, Girodet, Heinrich Heine, Jean Paul Sartre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Romantic literature, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, Simone de Beauvoir
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