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"it would be really unfair to recommend that a gnat reads *in search of lost time.* they would be dead before proust even involuntarily remembers the madeleine."
"in 1897, literary critic Jean Lorrain publicly accused Marcel Proust of being gay. Proust was gay, of course, but nevertheless demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel. Lorrain agreed, despite the fact that he too was gay. when the time came to duel, they both missed their shots and went home."
"whenever i'm drunk (like rn) i get flooded w all these like, very beautiful and powerful memories (proust, madeleine, etc etc)."
"For me: 1. Proust - Swann's Way"
"swann's way by proust, if beckett was jazz music, proust is impressionistic painting and slow classical music. It has this beautiful *beautiful* prose style to it. He builds paragraphs upon paragraphs and doesn't leave you til you have read like 2 pages and then you just have to pause to think about"
"Beyond this analysis of social relations, there are just so many gay men that have contributed massively to my perspective on the world and opened my mind to different ways of seeing things. Marcel Proust, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde etc., they've all managed to paint an image of life that I pre"
"There's no way people who are scared off by words like "myriad" and sentences longer than 10 words have read Nietzsche or Hegel or Mark Fisher or Proust or whatever else it is you pseuds have seen on 4chan and understood any of it."
"proust is the greatest writer of the 20th century, as a novelist, by a long shot."