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Category Archives: Roman fleuve
Proust drops in at 44 Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith, 44 Scotland Street series (2005 – no end in sight) If you like your soap operas literate, breezy, quirky, and in book form, then the prolific Mr. Smith* has a few options for you. I settled into … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Goals, Art, Fiction, Humorous, Roman fleuve, Series, Travel
Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Marcel Proust
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Remembrance of Proust #5
In Proust’s Way, Roger Shattuck includes a chapter on “How to Read a Roman-Fleuve¹”. Shattuck points to Proust’s style as purposefully constructed to slow a reader down: “His sentences move through long spirals that will not be hastened and deserve to be … Continue reading
