"Alas upon returning home in the grip of the most violent attack I find your charming letter."
Did he not keep her letters to him?
Letters to His Neighbor #Proust #MadameWilliams
#Prousttogether
Did he not keep her letters to him?
Letters to His Neighbor #Proust #MadameWilliams
#Prousttogether
September 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM
"Alas upon returning home in the grip of the most violent attack I find your charming letter."
Did he not keep her letters to him?
Letters to His Neighbor #Proust #MadameWilliams
#Prousttogether
Did he not keep her letters to him?
Letters to His Neighbor #Proust #MadameWilliams
#Prousttogether
September 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
It is always a very great pleasure for me to receive a letter from you. The latest was particularly sweet for me in these terrible times in which one trembles for all those one loves, and I do not mean by that only those one knows.
Proust, Letter to Mme Williams, Oct. 1914 ?
#prousttogether 📚 #war
Proust, Letter to Mme Williams, Oct. 1914 ?
#prousttogether 📚 #war
August 28, 2026 at 1:54 PM
It is always a very great pleasure for me to receive a letter from you. The latest was particularly sweet for me in these terrible times in which one trembles for all those one loves, and I do not mean by that only those one knows.
Proust, Letter to Mme Williams, Oct. 1914 ?
#prousttogether 📚 #war
Proust, Letter to Mme Williams, Oct. 1914 ?
#prousttogether 📚 #war
Okay if you and TTB are no longer on X I guess I’ll switch over I hate to give up my #ProustTogether family though.
September 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Okay if you and TTB are no longer on X I guess I’ll switch over I hate to give up my #ProustTogether family though.
Checked two versions of ‘Don Quixote’ out of the library today because I want to try both and then stick with the version I like best (which in this case might be the funnier one). It started with Tolstoy, increased with Proust, now I’m a translation nerd/snob. #tolstoytogether #prousttogether
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Checked two versions of ‘Don Quixote’ out of the library today because I want to try both and then stick with the version I like best (which in this case might be the funnier one). It started with Tolstoy, increased with Proust, now I’m a translation nerd/snob. #tolstoytogether #prousttogether
A good reason to visit Paris #prousttogether
“Worth, Inventing Haute Couture,” a new exhibition at Petit Palais, showcases how the 19th-century designer Charles Frederick Worth set the template for many of the conventions and myths that still govern the creation of high fashion today.
The Extravagant Eye of Charles Frederick Worth
A blockbuster show in Paris celebrates the designer whose over-the-top aesthetic embodied his money-mad era—and speaks to our own.
www.newyorker.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A good reason to visit Paris #prousttogether
#Prousttogether my sources (goodreads) tell me that we started reading Swann‘s Way five years ago on August 14, 2020. Happy belated anniversary @literaturesc.bsky.social et al
August 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#Prousttogether my sources (goodreads) tell me that we started reading Swann‘s Way five years ago on August 14, 2020. Happy belated anniversary @literaturesc.bsky.social et al
OBERON.
...a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness
Act II s1 #MidsummerND2026 #enchantment
Where else did we encounter the viola tri-color pansy? #prousttogether ? #Proust
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...a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness
Act II s1 #MidsummerND2026 #enchantment
Where else did we encounter the viola tri-color pansy? #prousttogether ? #Proust
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July 18, 2026 at 1:43 PM
OBERON.
...a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness
Act II s1 #MidsummerND2026 #enchantment
Where else did we encounter the viola tri-color pansy? #prousttogether ? #Proust
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...a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness
Act II s1 #MidsummerND2026 #enchantment
Where else did we encounter the viola tri-color pansy? #prousttogether ? #Proust
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Could you write out complete sentences (start and end) like you did with #ProustTogether , when we were all reading different editions? And notes like "blank space" really helps, thanks!
I'm reading the 1951 ed., tr. Ellen Marriage.
I'm reading the 1951 ed., tr. Ellen Marriage.
June 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Could you write out complete sentences (start and end) like you did with #ProustTogether , when we were all reading different editions? And notes like "blank space" really helps, thanks!
I'm reading the 1951 ed., tr. Ellen Marriage.
I'm reading the 1951 ed., tr. Ellen Marriage.
#NYRBWomen26 #AContinuation
...what is Proust’s poetry if not infinitely unrelenting reticular analysis, galactic thought, applied to the singular and concrete object: the metaphor, the precise, incandescent similitude?
...what is Proust’s poetry if not infinitely unrelenting reticular analysis, galactic thought, applied to the singular and concrete object: the metaphor, the precise, incandescent similitude?
April 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
the moment of apocalypse, when even stars no longer keep their places? And those sirens, weren’t they Wagnerian?” 5/5 p 71 #Proust #FindingTimeAgain
April 10, 2026 at 3:15 PM
“Such is the perfect, impartial kabbalah that holds the thread of the hours, the order of the days and years, suspended around them both, as around Proust’s bed.” (p11) #NYRBWomen26 #AContinuation
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/blogs/obooks...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03...
www.collectiveinkbooks.com/blogs/obooks...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03...
April 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
"We were not much alike, and had been brought together by factors extraneous to our real personalities." Such candor reminds me of Proust. #ProustTogether
February 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"We were not much alike, and had been brought together by factors extraneous to our real personalities." Such candor reminds me of Proust. #ProustTogether
#rachelcusktogether
The little tarts, the epiphany from 'the national sweet', the Eccles cake - reminiscent of Proust's madeleine.
The little tarts, the epiphany from 'the national sweet', the Eccles cake - reminiscent of Proust's madeleine.
January 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
#NYRBWomen25
"There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p's and q's and keeping up with current oddities - no slouch more or less - and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp."
(67)
"There I sit, reading my Proust and minding my p's and q's and keeping up with current oddities - no slouch more or less - and I see them shrink from my gaze as though I were a tramp."
(67)
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I'm here! Just finished the last pages and letting the 12 books swirl around in my head now. Loved the daily reading of Powell's masterpiece and of everyone's thoughts in these 16 months.
Not the feeling at the end of #ProustTogether but autumn 2025 is definitely not summer 2021.
Not the feeling at the end of #ProustTogether but autumn 2025 is definitely not summer 2021.
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'm here! Just finished the last pages and letting the 12 books swirl around in my head now. Loved the daily reading of Powell's masterpiece and of everyone's thoughts in these 16 months.
Not the feeling at the end of #ProustTogether but autumn 2025 is definitely not summer 2021.
Not the feeling at the end of #ProustTogether but autumn 2025 is definitely not summer 2021.
"Something might be made of that, in an irregular, wandering rhythmical pattern. This might be the line to pursue: to see one reality and turn it inside out again and again, making of one many, and all conflicting; and ending with a question mark...." 153 #ANote_2025 #Lehmann The writer
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September 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Many of us from #ProustTogether are on bsky now! Currently reading #AnthonyPowellTogether .
September 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Many of us from #ProustTogether are on bsky now! Currently reading #AnthonyPowellTogether .
"He glanced over the volumes of his library: Moby Dick, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, ... and a novel called Jacob's Room, and a paper volume whose title haunted him, A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs." 66
P ii #ANote_2025 #Lehmann Love! #ProustTogether #Woolfpack #VirginiaWoolf #Melville
P ii #ANote_2025 #Lehmann Love! #ProustTogether #Woolfpack #VirginiaWoolf #Melville
September 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"He glanced over the volumes of his library: Moby Dick, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, ... and a novel called Jacob's Room, and a paper volume whose title haunted him, A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs." 66
P ii #ANote_2025 #Lehmann Love! #ProustTogether #Woolfpack #VirginiaWoolf #Melville
P ii #ANote_2025 #Lehmann Love! #ProustTogether #Woolfpack #VirginiaWoolf #Melville
Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door intersecting with Proust: ‘The ivory box lined with sandalwood which I used to sniff when nobody was in the drawing room. The ivory box awakened unnamed memories.” #NYRBWomen25
September 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think the universe wants us to read it again @literaturesc.bsky.social #ProustTogether
September 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think the universe wants us to read it again @literaturesc.bsky.social #ProustTogether
Wow! week 66 = 16+ months of Dancing with Powell & friends! Longer than #ProustTogether which was almost exactly one year. 🧐
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Wow! week 66 = 16+ months of Dancing with Powell & friends! Longer than #ProustTogether which was almost exactly one year. 🧐
Totally thought that too.
#ProustTogether
#ProustTogether
Could Charles Bovary’s daydream of doubling memories on the ride to Les Bertaux have been an explicit influence on Proust?
Emma’s imperfections are introduced alongside her beauty: “Yet her hand was not beautiful . . . too long and without soft inflections in its contours.” #flauberttogether
Emma’s imperfections are introduced alongside her beauty: “Yet her hand was not beautiful . . . too long and without soft inflections in its contours.” #flauberttogether
July 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Totally thought that too.
#ProustTogether
#ProustTogether
"He was reading a book about gardening. He held it close to his face. Daylight tired him; it was like an intruder between memory and the eye." #ProustTogether #Dying
Mr Cranefield keeping the cut-out figures, "the pair I write about," near "so that I never make a mistake." #Writers #Writing
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Mr Cranefield keeping the cut-out figures, "the pair I write about," near "so that I never make a mistake." #Writers #Writing
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July 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"He was reading a book about gardening. He held it close to his face. Daylight tired him; it was like an intruder between memory and the eye." #ProustTogether #Dying
Mr Cranefield keeping the cut-out figures, "the pair I write about," near "so that I never make a mistake." #Writers #Writing
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Mr Cranefield keeping the cut-out figures, "the pair I write about," near "so that I never make a mistake." #Writers #Writing
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