tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post9140275057100741419..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The sensation of the very airs that blew upon me - Proustian DickensAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-44695079809861721572010-10-14T16:10:12.053-05:002010-10-14T16:10:12.053-05:00What swell comments.
I continued this theme today...What swell comments.<br /><br />I continued this theme today, with extra bonus Proust, right out of the Albertine section of books 5 and 6. Where are you at, tuulenhaiven? I just finished a second trip through <i>The Fugitive</i>. <i>Time Regained</i> - which is awesome - next year, maybe.<br /><br />Emily's post, a little <i>too</i> enjoyable, is <a href="http://www.eveningallafternoon.com/2010/10/madame-bovary-1iere-partie.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Are you sure Proust did not influence Flaubert?<br /><br />So there are just the three big first-person Dickens novels, right? This one, <i>Great Expectations</i>, and half of <i>Bleak House</i>? Am I missing something? So eleven and a half novels, more or less, are third person omniscient, the epitome of the technique. But when Dickens wants to deal with different problems, he does not just pick a different tool, but really thinks about how to use it. <br /><br />Lifetime Reader - those madeleines don't do it for me. I didn't have them for tea with my aunt at an impressionable age, so they're just cookies. I need date-pinwheel cookies and milk to get something like the same effect. Looking forward to that memoir.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-60157377476130311642010-10-14T14:47:55.586-05:002010-10-14T14:47:55.586-05:00Your post has inspired me to go write in my multi-...Your post has inspired me to go write in my multi-volume journal--carefully designed for no eyes but my own (currently awaiting publication)--and stuff my face with madeleines.Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09543197858284977937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73614106555444519002010-10-13T18:51:32.744-05:002010-10-13T18:51:32.744-05:00It's funny, I never, ever think of Dickens wri...It's funny, I never, ever think of Dickens writing like this. Of course, I haven't read <em>David Copperfield</em> and so much of what I have read is third-person (omniscient? it's been a while). But you just think of him as so, I don't know, "standard." As you said yesterday, those baleful Modernists, making me think the 19th century was simple. Of course it wasn't!nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-8792331385563825922010-10-13T18:44:21.367-05:002010-10-13T18:44:21.367-05:00Maybe since I write about a few generations back, ...Maybe since I write about a few generations back, I liked that phrase of yours "the sheen of Proust."Shelleyhttp://dustbowlpoetry.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27376243782104954642010-10-13T18:09:26.879-05:002010-10-13T18:09:26.879-05:00All these narrator-as-author posts are leading ver...All these narrator-as-author posts are leading very nicely to <em>Madame Bovary</em> - I wrote my first post on it about the odd first-person narrator who vanishes completely after page 2, and my second Flaubert post about possible influence on Proust (and ways Proust may have played with Flaubert's worldview). <br /><br />The "long miles of road" passage reminds me how dense and chewy Dickens's prose can be.Emilyhttp://www.eveningallafternoon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-65181164307730796612010-10-13T17:18:52.935-05:002010-10-13T17:18:52.935-05:00Oh very interesting. David Copperfield is one of m...Oh very interesting. David Copperfield is one of my favorite books by Dickens, and I'm currently working through In Search of Lost Time, so this post is very apt. I had never stopped to consider why Copperfield was writing... Thanks for sharing your thoughts. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com