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lyric essence: there are no maybes
Henri Cartier-Bresson is recognized as one of the great masters of photography. Armed with only a Leica, he strove to capture the fleeting reality of what he called, “the decisive moment.” He employed neither gimmicks of craft nor tricks of … Continue reading
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tendencies that ought to be conflicting
In Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, the snobbish Mme de Cambremer at one point exclaims, ” In heaven’s name, after a painter like Monet, who is an absolute genius, don’t go an mention an old hack without a vestige … Continue reading
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Tagged Corot, Eugene Delacroix, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Georges Rouault, Jacques Lemercier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, John Constable, Marcel Proust, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Scarron, Peter Paul Rubens, Piet Mondrian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Simon Vouet
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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
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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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