In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
A French Literature, Fiction, Literature book. the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup, and introduces two figures who come to dominate the narrator's life - the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.
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- Pages: 554 pages
- ISBN: 9780141941851 / 141941855
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Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of a train, grim, hurried, stand-offish, brusque, fastidious and spiteful, surrounded by other passengers whom one has never seen before, whom one will never see again and towards whom the only conceivable way of behaving is to make sure that they keep away from one's cold chicken and stay out of one's chosen corner-seat. Marcel Proust,... the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue, the resilient dryness of the sun-parched earth, veiled only by the diaphanous gauze woven of distance and the shade of the trees. Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower // You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes. Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower //
I like to read books about peoples fucked up relationships more than I like to read about how lovely the flowers smell along the French seaside (unless of course the flowers are a blatant euphemism for something else), so I did not end up rating Within a Budding Grove quite as highly as I rated Swanns Way.The first half of the book... Adolescent AestheticsThe temptation to compare Philip Roth and Marcel Proust is one I cant resist. Both Goodbye Columbus and Portnoys Complaint seem to me inverted interpretations of Prousts Within the Budding Grove. Using the same technique of relentless interior monologue, all are coming of age novels featuring sex, taste of one kind... WHY?Or: The Brain on ProustTheres a group of 7 ladies Ive known for quite some time. We meet regularly for afternoon tea, going round turn and turn about, although Barbara has now been excused from hosting in deference to her great seniority and some health issues that come along with the seniority. We have nothing in common except...
