Rick Delaney ’s Comments (group member since Sep 08, 2012)

Rick Delaney ’s comments from the The Year of Reading Proust group.

Indeed. I read ISOLT in '99-00, so am going through the thing again. Coleridge is more of a dipping in and out. Thanks again for the book recomm.

This book looks great. I see that it influenced Camille Paglia. So it must be interesting if nothing else. I'm juggling Proust, Coleridge and NY Review of Books, but I'll add P of Space to my list.

David, have you read any Joyce? I've read "Ulysses" a few times, and "A Portrait of the Artist" and "Dubliners." As a raised Protestant, I've found it difficult to navigate much of Joyce, purely because I'm not as familiar with the Catholicisms! I don't find that particular aspect to be the case with Proust. But it's interesting to consider where folks come from, what they bring (or don't bring) to their reading.
Rick

@Proustitute,
can i give you here the nook pages and let you incorporate them as you wish in the schedule?
I've only done Swann's Way for now:
Jan 6 p. 69
Jan 13 to p. 119
Jan 20 to p. 176
Jan 27 to p. 227
Feb 3 to p. 281
Feb 10 to p. 333
Feb 17 to p. 382
Feb 24 to p. 434 (end of volume)

Proustitute,
sure, I'd be happy to nook-ify the paginations. I do have the Modern Library version.
Rick

The Steel book is hard to find. I went to the local college's library and got it.
And a couple of articles: "The Architecture of Time," by Richard Macksey
"Proust and Human Time," Georges Poulet

I'm a big fan of novels playing with time, with chronology (Joseph Conrad, Faulkner). There's of course some shifts and alterations of chronology in Proust. This book, "Chronology and Time in A La..." by Gareth Steel, is a good analysis. (Not sure if the link will work. I haven't done links on this site yet.)
http://books.google.com/books/about/C...

Joshua, I too finished Narr. Discourse, two weeks ago. Tough, but good.

David, I've begun it but haven't gone far. It looks great! I just finished Joshua Landy's Philosophy as Fiction. Wonderful book. Wonderful endnotes, as well.

I have a nook tablet, and all of Proust on it (but i may read it on my dog-eared paperbacks).
Seems that Combray ends at p. 204 on the nook. Do ereader paginations change when one changes font size?
Rick