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Proust 2020/2021: Mapping characters / The Dreyfus affair in The Guermantes Way

August 16, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen
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Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 224–99)

July 27, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Relation of Parts I and II This section of Swann’s Way closes out “Combray” and opens “Swann in Love,” a section I initially found baffling.

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Proust 2020/2021: Within a Budding Grove (pp. 661–730)

July 21, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Ongoing Theme of Seriality / Multiplicity Continuing the theme that I called “monotonous” in my previous post, the closing pages of Proust’s second volume analyze,

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Proust 2020/2021: Within a Budding Grove (pp. 582–661)

July 12, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

Regret: On the Contingent and Universal As the Narrator watches Albertine continue on her way “to join her friends,” he describes his sense of “despair”

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Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 65–139)

June 29, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

On the one hand, I get a great deal of pleasure from the Narrator’s explanations of what used to give him so much pleasure in

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Proust 2020/2021: Swann’s Way (pp. 1–64)

May 26, 2020 Benjamin D. Hagen

[I’ve been collecting my 2020/2021 Proust notes in this Google Doc, but I thought I might post them here bit-by-bit and let myself add /

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