‘Tiens! Une madeleine?’
Michael Wood: The Comic-Strip Proust, 26 November 1998
À la recherche du temps perdu: Combray
by Marcel Proust, edited by Stéphane Heuet.
Delcourt, 72 pp., €10.95, October 1998,2 84055 218 3 Show More
by Marcel Proust, edited by Stéphane Heuet.
Delcourt, 72 pp., €10.95, October 1998,
Proust among the Stars
by Malcolm Bowie.
HarperCollins, 348 pp., £19.99, August 1998,0 00 255622 7 Show More
by Malcolm Bowie.
HarperCollins, 348 pp., £19.99, August 1998,
“... There are all kinds of things to do with books apart from reading them, and one of the most pleasurable is to dream of reading them. Many of us keep scribbled or notional lists of such dreams, and happily speak of rereading works we haven’t read even once. In If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Calvino steers his reader and chief character through a bookstore, past heaps of dangerous objects identified as, among other things, Books You Haven’t Read, Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages, Books You Want to Own so They’ll Be Handy just in Case, Books You Mean to Read but There Are Others You Must Read First, and Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them ... ”