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- 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 - Author Jon Foyt Announces The Release Of His Latest Highly-Anticipated Book 'Marcel Proust in Taos: In Search of Times ...
LOS ANGELES, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jon Foyt has announced that his new book "Marcel Proust in Taos: In Search of Times Past" is now available for sale. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130702/PH41258-a ...
July 2, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
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- 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.