°oO The Holy Quran and Marcel Proust Oo°
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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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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.