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Why Yves Saint Laurent?s passing is so felt in fashion

[Cross-posted] Yves Saint Laurent’s passing is such a shock to the fashion media because he was the world’s greatest couturier. When we broke the news on Sunday night at Lucire, it was obvious that we were marking the end of an era. The casual observer might say that the end occurred in 2002, when Saint Laurent retired to his house in Marrakech. But while he remained alive, there was always that link to one of fashion’s pure geniuses. Saint Laurent, perhaps like Mozart, did not have for...

L'oeuvre parallèle de Proust

En associant trop À la recherche du temps perdu au thème de la mémoire, on néglige l'obsession proustienne de l'oubli. «Je commençai à subir peu à peu la force de l'oubli, ce puissant instrument d'adaptation à la réalité, destructeur en nous de ce passé survivant qui est en constante contradiction avec elle», écrivait pourtant Marcel Proust en 1915 dans la correspondance gigantesque et hétéroclite qui deviendra l'ombre envahissante de son roman. Suite

La (fameuse) petite madeleine

II y avait déjà bien des années que, de Combray, tout ce qui n'était pas le théâtre et le drame de mon coucher, n'existait plus pour moi, quand un jour d'hiver, comme je rentrais à la maison, ma mère, voyant que j'avais froid, me proposa de me faire prendre, contre mon habitude, un peu de thé. Je refusai d'abord et, je ne sais pourquoi, me ravisai. Elle envoya chercher un de ces gâteaux courts et dodus appelés Petites Madeleines qui semblent avoir été moulés dans la valve rainurée...

Chronologie des événements de « À la recherche du temps perdu » - Wikipédia

Chronologie des événements de « À la recherche du temps perdu »

YouTube - Monty Python - All-England Summarize Proust Competition

Monty Python - All-England Summarize Proust Competition

Book review: proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain

"We were never born to read." So begins Maryanne Wolf's enjoyable account of the neuroscience of reading. This key insight, that our brains evolved for aural-oral language but not for ... (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)

“Proust was a neuroscientist” on Salon

Jonathon Keats (no, not that one) has written a scorching review of neuro grad student Jonah Lehrer’s new book, Proust was a Neuroscientist. I saw this somewhat more favorable review a few weeks in the NYT and was intrigued by the book. As an undergrad, I majored in cognitive science and English and, naturally, was fascinated [...]

Citations de Marcel Proust

Citations de Marcel Proust

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.” Albert Camus

I have had a lot of posts using Blogger but I have never once written about Blogger the application. If you are looking to create a blog that is easy to manage you can’t beat Blogger. Many times I have a new idea and I want a website to go with it I will turn to Blogger to do a blog. The reason to do a blog in the first place is that it allows you to make a type of website easily. If you can email you can blog as well. Now there are many types of blogs from the person documenting their lives s...

It's a mental thing, you wouldn't understand...

"as Leonardo said of painting, cosa mentale..." ~ Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove Leonardo explained in his Treatise on Painting: "If the painter wants to survey vast stretches of the country... he has it first in his mind and...