Dead Technology Commentators: Novelist Marcel Proust Takes On the Telephone The telephone, a supernatural instrument before whose miracles we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or order an ice cream,” wrote Marcel Proust in his much discussed but less read novel In Search of Lost Time." So what can a dead French novelist tell us about about new technology? As it turns out, the answer is quite a lot.
July 2, 2013 - Forbes
David Remnick in Newsday You would think that the permanent secretary of an academy that pretends to wisdom but has historically overlooked Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov, to name just a few non-Nobelists, would spare us the categorical lectures,said David Remnick,...
Gianni Versace in Times Online Versace said of Fontanelle: "The house in Moltrasio is a Proust house, whereas the ones in Milano and Miami are more Batman. . . It is the house that really belongs to me, reflecting a mirror image of all that I am, for better or worse."
Dana Gioia in The Daily News of Newburyport Along with Maryanne Wolf, author of "Proust and the Squid: the Story and Science of the Reading Brain," and Kevin Lyons, superintendent of Newburyport Public Schools, Gioia spoke to the value of reading to both the individual and the community.