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Quoting Proust

1f2frfbf — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:37:03 -0800

Looking for a Marcel Proust quote in the original French. “Love is space and time directly perceptible to the heart” is what my copy of Auden's Book of Aphorisms says, but I want to know know what Proust originally wrote. Googling around I can find that it's from The Captive (La Prisonnière), and I can do a machine translation, but I'd rather know the original French.

I want my Recherche!

Baldons — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:31:11 -0800

Cool NYC libraries, foreign language books in NYC & availability of book borrowing to foreign people in NYC libraries. (mi) I'm gonna embark in a strange, solo, hermit-like (that's the starting intention anyway) three-month vacation to the very Babylon, New York city (I'm from Italy). I want to do many things, one of which is to read a lot. What are your favourite NYC libraries? Why?

I'll mainly read american literature in english language. But I could, say, feel the sudden impulse to read Proust's "In search of lost time". And I'd want to read that in italian, as I don't speak french. Where could I find a library with books in foreign languages?

Also, will I be able to borrow books, or I'll have to read them inside the building due to the fact that I'm not american?

Time Regained

BackwardsCity — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:13:21 -0800

How many pages can you read in an hour? The professor I work for is considering assigning reading by the hour in her course next semester, rather than by the page. She wants to get a sense of how much people can read in a given timespan, as well as what sort of range would result.

(The book in question will be Proust's In Search of Lost Time, if you want to factor that in.)

What is Proust's longest sentence?

rorycberger — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:00:54 -0800

I'm looking for the longest sentence in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. In an article (subscription req.) this morning in the Wall Street Journal about this book, I was intrigued by the following claim: Mr. de Botton fearlessly cuts through Proust's prose (his longest sentence would stretch around the base of a wine bottle 17 times)...

So my question is: what is that sentence?

Help, I'm reading Proust!

futility closet — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:38:33 -0800

I've started In Search of Lost Time and found I like it. Should I keep going? At page 80 I'm barely 2 percent of the way through the whole work; it would likely take me 2-3 years to get through all seven volumes. Has anyone finished the whole thing? Was it worth it? I don't want to read a couple thousand pages only to lose interest ...