Proust

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Connie Clark wrote:

> Hi Mike,

> I'm back to work, with fond thoughts of my visit with you and
> others while in Austin.  I really hope to do it again soon.  I have
> pasted some discussion from the ghetto 2 that I thought might be of
> interest to you.  Jon is in Paris, and there has been some discussion
> back and forth about things he is is doing, especially with Carolyn
> Garner.

Really? I recently checked out one of the volumes of Proust's 
novel.

Interestingly (to me), I was rather put off by it. The most 
offensive was the numbers he does on Albertine the 
servant regarding her general ignorance, superstitions 
and her mangling of French. His high and 
mighty attitude towards her reveals a heartless 
snobbery. His snobby/snotty attitude towards many 
others who socialized with his family is likewise 
offputting. 

I had better memories of reading him in English.
Reading him in the original forced me to a surprising 
reversal of my opinion of the writer.

it is inneresting that Jon Ford & Carolyn Garner
(and husband John Siscoe?) are or will soon be
in Paris. Gilbert is in the phone book and I
am SURE that he would love to hear from them.

The corklined room IS the original room P wrote
his big novel in. the cork is not original and
was paid for by the Societe des Amis de Marcel Proust.
the blvd Hausseman it looks on was noisy then and 
it still is.

Mike