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[...]

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[...]

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

Monty Python - All-England Summarize Proust Competition

"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)

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,[...]

Citations de Marcel Proust

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[...]

"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...