A day late. Happy birthday, Benjamin #Britten. His last vocal work was the cantata Phaedra, whose libretto included a translation of Phèdre by Jean #Racine. The play, of course, figures prominently in #Proust. This recording is by #JessyeNorman, posthumously released. #Proustsky
Britten: Phaedra, Op. 93: In May, in Brilliant Athens
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November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A day late. Happy birthday, Benjamin #Britten. His last vocal work was the cantata Phaedra, whose libretto included a translation of Phèdre by Jean #Racine. The play, of course, figures prominently in #Proust. This recording is by #JessyeNorman, posthumously released. #Proustsky
I haven't even gotten Peter Bush's The Guermantes Way in the mail, but here it is, a release date for Helen Constantine's Sodom and Gomorrah. (The Blackwell's release date is three months earlier, for some reason.) #Proust #OxfordProust #Proustsky global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I haven't even gotten Peter Bush's The Guermantes Way in the mail, but here it is, a release date for Helen Constantine's Sodom and Gomorrah. (The Blackwell's release date is three months earlier, for some reason.) #Proust #OxfordProust #Proustsky global.oup.com/academic/pro...
There is the religion and philosophy stuff of course but, make no mistake, Dick Wolf owes Law & Order to this. Happy birthday, #Dostoevsky.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
There is the religion and philosophy stuff of course but, make no mistake, Dick Wolf owes Law & Order to this. Happy birthday, #Dostoevsky.
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Happy birthday, Georges #Bizet. Husband to Geneviève, model for the Duchesse. Dad to Jacques, object of Marcel’s forthright sexual attraction. Composer of some opera about an amoral cigarette girl from Seville. Unlike discerning operaphiles, I love the #JessyeNorman version. #Proust #Proustsky
Carmen: Seguidilla - Jessye Norman - Avery Fisher Hall - 1994 (HD)
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October 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Happy birthday, Georges #Bizet. Husband to Geneviève, model for the Duchesse. Dad to Jacques, object of Marcel’s forthright sexual attraction. Composer of some opera about an amoral cigarette girl from Seville. Unlike discerning operaphiles, I love the #JessyeNorman version. #Proust #Proustsky
“…I let the cheap wine of this popular enthusiasm go to my head. Once the curtain had fallen, though, I still felt disappointed that the pleasure I'd so longed for hadn't been greater…” #Proust, tr. @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social. Happy birthday, Sarah Bernhardt. #Proustsky
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“…I let the cheap wine of this popular enthusiasm go to my head. Once the curtain had fallen, though, I still felt disappointed that the pleasure I'd so longed for hadn't been greater…” #Proust, tr. @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social. Happy birthday, Sarah Bernhardt. #Proustsky
"Their position unstable, like that of the poet one day fêted in every drawing-room and applauded in every theatre in London, and the next driven from every lodging, unable to find a pillow upon which to lay his head." Happy birthday, #OscarWilde. #Proust #Proustsky
October 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"Their position unstable, like that of the poet one day fêted in every drawing-room and applauded in every theatre in London, and the next driven from every lodging, unable to find a pillow upon which to lay his head." Happy birthday, #OscarWilde. #Proust #Proustsky
Another reading group, this time on Reddit. This one just started yesterday and plans to take a year—about 50 pages a week, ten reasonable pages a day. There are page guides for Oxford, Modern Library, and Penguin, as well as weekly recaps and discussion questions. #Proust #Proustsky
AYearOfLostTime
A collective reading of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time — a year devoted to memory, art, and the quiet revelations of Proust.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Another reading group, this time on Reddit. This one just started yesterday and plans to take a year—about 50 pages a week, ten reasonable pages a day. There are page guides for Oxford, Modern Library, and Penguin, as well as weekly recaps and discussion questions. #Proust #Proustsky
I’ve had this for a while, a fun read after my first Search. Just found out at my local indie that it’s finally available in paperback. The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, tr. Sam Taylor, Belknap Press of @harvardpress.bsky.social. #Proust #Proustsky
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’ve had this for a while, a fun read after my first Search. Just found out at my local indie that it’s finally available in paperback. The Seventy-Five Folios & Other Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Nathalie Mauriac Dyer, tr. Sam Taylor, Belknap Press of @harvardpress.bsky.social. #Proust #Proustsky
I got this #translation of The Plague by Buss after ditching Marris. I just finished Part 4 and quite like it—not prim and flowery like Gilbert, and nothing like Marris. I just don't think that in order to sound modern and plainspoken one has to indulge in so much incorrect grammar. #Camus #booksky
October 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I got this #translation of The Plague by Buss after ditching Marris. I just finished Part 4 and quite like it—not prim and flowery like Gilbert, and nothing like Marris. I just don't think that in order to sound modern and plainspoken one has to indulge in so much incorrect grammar. #Camus #booksky
Happy birthday, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose Violin Sonata #1 was a possible model for the little phrase. There is no little phrase here, but a grand one at 8:03 that always gives me a thrill. To #JessyeNorman ’s Dalila, seducing is devouring. #SaintSaens #Proust #Proustsky
Samson et Delilah: Mon cœur s'ouvre a ta voix - Jessye Norman - Avery Fisher Hall - 1994 (HD)
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October 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Happy birthday, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose Violin Sonata #1 was a possible model for the little phrase. There is no little phrase here, but a grand one at 8:03 that always gives me a thrill. To #JessyeNorman ’s Dalila, seducing is devouring. #SaintSaens #Proust #Proustsky
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I wrote about Proust in translation/the new IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME for @literaryhub.bsky.social.
Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now!
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#proust
#booksky
Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now!
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#proust
#booksky
On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead
Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…
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October 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I wrote about Proust in translation/the new IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME for @literaryhub.bsky.social.
Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now!
lithub.com/on-translati...
#proust
#booksky
Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now!
lithub.com/on-translati...
#proust
#booksky
I’ve been reading #AnneTyler since my teens, off and on, and have never quite outgrown her, even if these days it’s often to humour my sister and have something to talk to her about. I’m several years late with this one. By the way, look at that gorgeous #font (Celeste, Chris Burke, 1994). #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I’ve been reading #AnneTyler since my teens, off and on, and have never quite outgrown her, even if these days it’s often to humour my sister and have something to talk to her about. I’m several years late with this one. By the way, look at that gorgeous #font (Celeste, Chris Burke, 1994). #booksky
I know it has its fans but I really hate this #translation. I stopped at the end of chapter 3, bought the Robin Buss, and am waiting for it in the mail. (I had previously nixed the Stuart Gilbert.) It’s the only other available. Let’s see if it’s any better. #Camus #Camussky
October 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I know it has its fans but I really hate this #translation. I stopped at the end of chapter 3, bought the Robin Buss, and am waiting for it in the mail. (I had previously nixed the Stuart Gilbert.) It’s the only other available. Let’s see if it’s any better. #Camus #Camussky
I rarely read poetry so it's been slow going, just taking it in in bits and pieces for now. But I'm enjoying this #translation of Les Fleurs du mal by Nathan Brown (2021, Verso 2024). At some point, I'd like to compare it with Richard Howard's. Sample below, one of the "banned" ones. #Baudelaire
October 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I rarely read poetry so it's been slow going, just taking it in in bits and pieces for now. But I'm enjoying this #translation of Les Fleurs du mal by Nathan Brown (2021, Verso 2024). At some point, I'd like to compare it with Richard Howard's. Sample below, one of the "banned" ones. #Baudelaire
Happy birthday, C.K. Scott Moncrieff. #Proust #Proustsky
September 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Happy birthday, C.K. Scott Moncrieff. #Proust #Proustsky
September 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
#Cervantes has some VERY strong opinions about #translation, even if (maybe) tongue-in-cheek since the novel we are reading in Spanish is supposedly a translation from Arabic. (And so the novel I'm reading is a translation of that supposed translation.)
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#Cervantes has some VERY strong opinions about #translation, even if (maybe) tongue-in-cheek since the novel we are reading in Spanish is supposedly a translation from Arabic. (And so the novel I'm reading is a translation of that supposed translation.)
Maybe she's learned a thing or two about movies with "glitter" in the title. (In the first SNL after 9/11, Tina Fey joked that OBL was hiding out in remote and barren places like theatres that were showing "Glitter.") 😂😂😂 No #Proust here, please move right along.
I’m still not over the fact that Mariah Carey knew my book GLITTER BOY when I met her and said it would make an “amazing movie”!! How can I make that happen?!
#LGBT #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky
#LGBT #KidLit #BookSky #PrimaryEduSky
September 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe she's learned a thing or two about movies with "glitter" in the title. (In the first SNL after 9/11, Tina Fey joked that OBL was hiding out in remote and barren places like theatres that were showing "Glitter.") 😂😂😂 No #Proust here, please move right along.
First of seven from @nybooks.com. This one includes a discussion of a sentence from Du côté. #Proust #Proustsky
Practical Translation: Proust | Merve Emre
In 1999, twelve distinguished translators and writers—including Margaret Jull Costa, Seamus Heaney, and Tim Parks—gathered at a villa on Lake Como to
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August 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
First of seven from @nybooks.com. This one includes a discussion of a sentence from Du côté. #Proust #Proustsky
August 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"…He suddenly caught the notes of a piano, and life for him
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
Camille Saint-Saëns’ Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for violin and piano, one of the models for Vinteuil’s “little phrase”
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Camille Saint Saëns - Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for Violin & Piano, Op. 75 (1885) [Score-Video]
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August 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"…He suddenly caught the notes of a piano, and life for him
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
stopped dead. What he was hearing was the little Saint-Saëns phrase. At first he did not recognize it, but felt a flood of freshness in himself, as though suddenly the weight of years had vanished and he was young again."—from Jean Santeuil
I got a copy of Stéphane Heuet’s À l’ombre graphic novel adaptation in French because I don’t think “Autour de Mme Swann” was ever translated to English. Some really striking images here. Also a bit of a French workout for me. #Proust #Proustsky
August 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got a copy of Stéphane Heuet’s À l’ombre graphic novel adaptation in French because I don’t think “Autour de Mme Swann” was ever translated to English. Some really striking images here. Also a bit of a French workout for me. #Proust #Proustsky