André Malraux
Category: Litterature
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André Malraux
People say that Malraux is a liar and a conman. They say so because of his Antimémoires, and other works about semi-real historical events, Man’s Fate for example. But Malraux never claimed to write the truth, indeed he named his memoirs, “Antimémoires” (anti memoirs) precisely because they are not stricto-sensu biographical, and they begin by…
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Montherlant.
After months of reading Proust and Céline, Gori tries to read another author. Montherlant’s Les Bestiaires is about young Alban being fascinated by bullfighting, that’s all Gori has read for now… Let’s see where it goes. To be honest, Gori is not sure he will go to the end of the novel, Montherlant’s style is…
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°oO The Holy Quran and Marcel Proust Oo°
The ending of Proust was very surprising. Just like the Quran, it ends with three descriptions : of time, of eternity and of man. Ignorant people said that Proust tried to make his name eternal through literary fame, but he clearly wrote that his book would end up forgotten after a few hundred years or…
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•o•o• The End of Proust •o•o•
Gori with intense sadness approaches the end of Proust’s book… Nothing he sees can stop this course of events… Is there anything as sad a the end of the world ? Gilberte came back with a new name and Albertine is no more, Gori guesses he will soon see Charlus’ ill fate… Swann is purposedly…
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Five good reasons to read Marcel Proust.
Yes my friends, this is perhaps the most overrated writer that nobody has read. And why would anyone read him ? His masterpiece, In search of time lost is marathonic and sometimes dull, a book about snobbism and elusive inner feelings, going on for more than two thousand pages. Yet going in search of time…
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the little music
Is there anything as sad as a novel from Céline ? It is not like the sweet melancholy of Proust, or the gentle sunset of Giono. Céline is perhaps the darkest author of its category.
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°© Marcel Proust ©°
Gori has now read more than half of Marcel Proust “À la recherche du temps perdu”. He started it because he wanted a never ending story to live in, but now the end is becoming real in his eyes. *** Reading Marcel Proust evokes the beauty of moonlight on southern plants. It is melancholic but…
