http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com Reading Proust (again). Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:57:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve perhaps waited too long to write my impressions of In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, but with nothing but voluntray recollection to help me, I’ll have to post what I have. I read the Grieve translation of this volume, and I liked it. There are ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2006/01/17/in-flower/ Here’s a nice meditation on reading In The Shadow of Young Girls In Bloom over at Chekhov’s Mistress. It makes me feel badly (again) about not finishing my own impressions of Vol. 2 so that I can post them here. I have a bunch of reading to do ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2006/01/12/quick-link/ I guess it’s time for the ubiquitous ‘blog apology for the lack of updates and the promise that more is on the way. I’ve got something mostly written about In the Shadow of Young Girls and artistic apprenticeship, but need to finish up a few things before posting it. http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/12/29/more-coming/ I’ve been reading In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower all week, in the new translation from James Grieve. It’s a good translation, light without being too breezy, appropriate for the second section of the novel, which transitions between a kind of prolonged childhood (and a concern for ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/10/01/james-greive-translator/ I was pleased to see that Waggish has a section on reading Proust, and, of course, it’s quite good. I found this attempt at translating Proust into English. It reminds me of the section of robotwisdom where Jorn Barger works at translating Madame Bovary into English. If my French ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/09/26/quick-links/ I was surprised this weekend to find an essay about Proust by Emmanuel Levinas. I pulled Proper Names off the shelf to glance through it, I’m not sure why, and saw that one of the last essays in the book was about Proust. I must have read it ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/09/20/levinas-on-proust/ Proust’s two translations of Ruskin are virtually non-existent for English readers because, of course, the originals are in English. I think this leaves a curious blind spot when thinking about Proust as a writer. As I’ve been researching Proust’s translations today it’s become clear how central they were ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/09/09/proust-and-ruskin/ 1) While Robert Bononno’s translation of the book seems quite smooth and good, the title is execrable. What in French was Le cygne de Proust becomes Swan’s Way in English. Presumably it was an editorial decision, and it’s easy to understand why it might have seemed a ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/09/06/some-further-notes-on-raczymows-swans-way/ In Search of Lost Time presents a problem to the reader who is also a writer. It’s difficult to know where or how to start writing about Proust’s novel. Partly this is due to the sheer size of the book, partly to the layering and repeating of themes ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/09/05/swans-way-by-henri-raczymow/ During the 20th century there was only one version of Proust’s novel in English, which was started by C. K. Moncrieff and from which Swann’s Way was published in 1922, while Proust was still alive. Moncrieff went on to translate all but the final volume of the novel, which ... http://letempsdeproust.blogsome.com/2005/09/01/proust-in-translation/