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Title: Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, Stanislas Brezet, Stephane Heuet ISBN: 1-56163-320-8 Publisher: Comics Lit Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (68 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Truth and Reality
Comment: I first picked up the first volume way back in 1987, and now (2001, Oct), I finally finished the entire works.
In the last book ("Time Regained") Proust lucidly laid out his philosophy of Truth and Reality. In doing so, he contrasted the traditional Plato's sense of objective-reality as "things in themselves", Truth as a notion independent of any human observation, to what will be the precursor of Modern Analytic Philosophy (of latter Wittgenstein's and American Pragmatism) in which reality and truth are defined as "things that are experienced". For Proust, reality and truth are embedded in the way we remember the past. What makes the church in Combray real, is my rememberance of it, and all of my sensation, emotion, and feeling that comes with that memory. This is an extremely radical view of reality and truth for his time, since it amounts to say that truth and reality are subjective, not objective. Proust, however, wanted to go further that this. He made the connection between reality/truth and arts. For him, arts is a unique way of remembering and experiencing the past. Only by remembering and conjuring all of your past memory of the past, can arts be borned.
Rating: 5
Summary: The masterpiece -"period".
Comment: I read "A la recherche du temps perdu" in its original language and I took about one year to finish it. It's a very difficult book ( 8 volumes) to read. It is not a autobiography nor a representation of reality, nor a interpretation of the world, but it's a book about us, human beings, about our innerselves, about time and space and the relationship we all have with those two realities. And all this in the most beautifull and perfect literary form. Proust writes about life like a microscope looks at reality: tiny little details we all experience but are not realy aware.This book is a masterpiece about us.
Rating: 5
Summary: Rebuking Ontario
Comment: You know, I read the reviews here and was surprised someone actually wrote, "don't confuse quantity with quality."
This is rediculous.
If you want authors who don't understand punctuation and grammatical agreement, try the trash of JOHN SAUL or STEVEN KING. They write books by the minute and make a fortune on crap.
There are some authors, like Proust, who haven't written that much during their lives, but they convey everything in the small amounts they've left behind for us.
When one compares contemporary writers to those in the past, we aren't evolving.
What it shows is that we've moved backwards.
Michael Godfrey
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Title: Remembrance of Things Past : Combray (Graphic Novel) by Stephane Heuet, Marcel Proust ISBN: 1561632783 Publisher: NBM Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Remembrance of Things Past : The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust ISBN: 0394711831 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Part Two: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, Stephane Heuet ISBN: 1561633488 Publisher: ComicsLit Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis, Christopher Prendergast ISBN: 067003245X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain De Botton ISBN: 0679779159 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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