Reading with Style discussion

20.6 - In Search of Lost Time is considered the definitive modern novel and it has had a profound effect on subsequent writers. Read a book written by an author influenced by Proust (Proust is mentioned in the influences section of their goodreads author profile or provide a link to an internet reference).

List of (some) qualifying authors

From The Proust Project "editor Andre Aciman asked twenty-eight writers to choose a favorite passage from "In Search of Lost Time" and introduce it in a brief essay:
André Aciman
Louis Auchincloss
Louis Begley
Olivier Bernier
Alain de Botton
Jonathan Burnham
Mary Ann Caws
Lydia Davis
Jeremy Eichler (music critic -- no published books)
Daniel Mark Epstein
Leslie Epstein
Anne F. Garréta
Shirley Hazzard
Richard Howard
Diane Johnson
Wayne Koestenbaum
Renaud Machart
Wyatt Mason
J.D. McClatchy
Susan Minot
Anka Muhlstein
Geoffrey O'Brien
Andrew Solomon
J. J. Sullivan?
Colm Tóibín
Judith Thurman
Lara Vapnyar
Edmund White

From The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books and For the Love of Books:
Robert Alter
Paul Auster
Michael Chabon
Jonathan Franzen
Paula Fox
Nadine Gordimer
Mary Gordon
Jim Harrison
Adam Haslett
Ha Jin
Justin Kaplan
David Leavitt
Doris Lessing
David Means
Claire Messud
Arthur Phillips
Richard Powers
Francine Prose
Louis D. Rubin
Orville Schell
Mona Simpson
Anthony Walton

From ISoLT wiki page:
Harold Bloom
André Gide
Bengt Holmqvist
Vladimir Nabokov
Phyllis Rose
Evelyn Waugh

List of (some) qualifying authors -- COMING SOON!

Virginia Woolf
Wolfgang Koeppen
Elizabeth Bowen (internet article)
Iris Murdoch (internet article)
Boris Pasternak from Boris Pasternak 2 Volume Paperback Set: A Literary Biography, page 329
Alejo Carpentier
A.S. Byatt from The Intersecting Realities and Fictions of Virginia Woolf and Colette, page 139
Jack Kerouac
Anita Desai in Symbolism In Anita Desai's Novels, page 146
Cormac McCarthy in On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing, page 91

How about Günter Grass
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/19...
Grass is the heir to a tradition that begins with the picaresque novel and ends with expressionism. He himself mentions Sterne, his German counterpart Jean Paul, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Rabelais, Joyce, Doblin and Proust. Of the Americans, Dos Passos is important to him, but his special affection is reserved for Melville.

Joanna wrote: "How about Günter Grass
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/19...
Grass is the heir to a tradition that begins with the picaresque novel and ends with expressionism. He himsel..."

Good find! I'll take it.

great lists! Thanks for the research, ladies!

"....{Thomas Wolfe} was an early disciple of H. G. Wells, a follower and imitator of James Joyce..., an admirer of Sinclair Lewis, of Dostoievski..., and of Proust."

http://archive.org/stream/thomaswolfe...

"...Wolfe was influenced by what he read as well as by what he experienced, and among his discoveries at Harvard were James Joyce and Marcel Proust. And Wolfe was, Donald suggests, influenced by both."

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-02-2...

{Paul Harding's} favourites include Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, and The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

http://abroadwritersconference.com/20...

I love it when Liz spends her Saturday's doing research!

"Kristeva deftly examines Colette’s controversial life and work and considers two of her most important influences, Honoré de Balzac and Marcel Proust..."

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-23...

Liz M wrote: ""Kristeva deftly examines Colette’s controversial life and work and considers two of her most important influences, Honoré de Balzac and Marcel Proust..."

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-23......"

Oh, cool! I just got a hold of Chéri from my library. Thanks!

"Proust is important for everyone"

In conversation with the sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky, novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa discusses the relative merits of "high" and "mass" culture in the contemporary world and defends the ideas explored in his recent book La civilización del espectáculo.

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012...

Would Kazuo Ishiguro be acceptable?

In an interview he was asked, "Although you said that you didn't read very much prior to university, what authors would you identify as the main influences on your work?"

He replied, "...I think it's perfectly possible that an author can be influenced a lot not by the writers he or she really likes, but by something they happen to read at a certain point. I have been influenced by things I just happened to read and thought, "This is really good," and I adopted it and it stayed in my writing. An example of that is Proust. I've only ever read the first volume of Proust. I haven't got beyond 'Combray', or Swann's Way anyway, I just got a bit beyond 'Combray', and to be honest, I find much of 'Combray' very dull, that's why I haven't gone on. But the 'Overture', the preface, is about 60 pages long, and I read that between my first and second novels, and I think it had a terrific impact on me..."

Here is a link to the rather lengthy interview:

http://asiasociety.org/arts/literatur...

The questions aren't numbered, but it is the 7th question.

Thanks, and if Ishiguro won't work for this task, I'll try to fit The Remains of the Day in PnM.

D wrote: "Would Kazuo Ishiguro be acceptable?..."

Absolutely!

Liz M wrote: "D wrote: "Would Kazuo Ishiguro be acceptable?..."

Absolutely!"

Thanks!

"{Raymond Radiguet} devoted himself entirely to reading in the family library, devouring the writers of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette, and Stendhal, Proust, and finally the poets Verlaine, Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Lautréamont."

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I looked up the author mentioned above. (So sad he was only 20 when he died!) Anyway he was great friends with Jean Cocteau. So I looked up him too. The translation into English of the article is very rudimentary but it did say "he associated with Marcel Proust, Andre Gide and Maurice Barres"
So would he work? His Terrible Kids Book (my translation) is in the 1001 Books You Must Read Before you die.

Having been the reformed military service , Cocteau nevertheless decides to participate in the War of 1914 as a civilian ambulance with medical convoy. Adopted by a regiment of marines, he lives in Dixmude flies with Roland Garros but quickly discharged for health reasons . He returned to Paris and resumed his artistic activities. After the necessary gestation period, he wrote about the war one of his best novels: Thomas the Impostor . In the 1920s , Cocteau associated with Marcel Proust , André Gide , and Maurice Barres .
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Rebekah wrote: "I looked up the author mentioned above. (So sad he was only 20 when he died!) Anyway he was great friends with Jean Cocteau. So I looked up him too. The translation into English of the article is v..."

Yes, he'll work: http://books.google.com/books?id=NxTa...

Not only were they friends, Cocteau used Proust in his writing: "Cocteau admitted to 'synthesizing' Proust's 'hothouse life and was quite astonished' that the novelist was not delighted."