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human oh too human
A funny and peculiar war it was. Especially in wartime Vichy Paris which stretched the lexicon of all the imaginative permutations that plumbed the bottom of French culture. The complexities of that particular context were splendidly shrewd and also quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Resnais, Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Dreyfus Affair, henri Bergson, jacqueline delubac, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marc Bloch, marcel Ophul, marcel ophuls, Max Jacob, robert brasillach, Sacha Guitry, Sarah Bernhardt
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balzac: from appearance into essence
Rodin’s memorial to Balzac, the great writer offended decency, and the prevailing taste of the public and a good part of the French establishment. Auguste Rodin’s statue of Honore de Balzac is an imaginary figure, conceived and sculptured half a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexandre Falguiere, Auguste Renoir, Charles Baudelaire, Dreyfus Affair, Emile Zola, Eugene Delacroix, Georges Rodenbach, Hector Berlioz, Henri Chapu, Honore de Balzac, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke
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what is and what it seems may be: manufacturing contentment?
Was he really the connoisseur who by accident sleepwalked into history? William James, the nineteenth-century psychologist wrote that “the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” In … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Roberts, Christopher Hitchens, Colin Firth, David Druck, Dreyfus Affair, Edward Bernays, Fruity Metcalfe, Howard Zinn, John Grigg, Kate Middleton, Nathan Straus, Neville Chamberlain, Noam Chomsky, Philip Ziegler, Prince William, Robert Capa, The King's Speech, Timothy Spall, Wallis Simpson, William James, William Manchester, Winston Churchill
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
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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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