![]() ![]() Get rid of creative Frenchman! Get rid of Pierre Renoir for starters! (4) Apart from the Jess Hill book, there was this from the Observer‘s Everyman Crossword Nº 3852 (link here): But it does seem that once you’ve embarked on this book, it crops up regularly. I had a 16-day holiday from Proust this month – we were away and À la recherche du temps perdu was too bulky to take along. À la recherche is looking less and less like a beautiful exploration of a luminous inner life, and more like something much uglier. That book’s descriptions of coercive control could have the narrator’s relationship to Albertine in mind. Thanks to the Emerging Artist, I’ve currently had extracts from Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do read aloud to me. Now, in the early pages of the fifth book, La prisonnière / The Captive, she is living with him in his family home in Paris (in separate but adjacent rooms, with a stern rule that she is not to interrupt his privacy unbidden), and he is obsessively keeping tabs on her, in case she even exchanges glances with ‘the kind of woman I don’t like’. ![]() Then she told him something about herself that made him conclude she was Lesbian, and he immediately pivoted to decide to marry her. Towards the end of Sodome et Gomorrhe, the narrator was about to dump Albertine because she was boring and no longer attractive. ![]() That means I’ve been at it for a whole year – and no end in sight. This is my twelfth blog post about À la recherche du temps perdu. ![]()
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