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"I think that the boat drawings might represent Proust's feelings, as if he were being buffeted around by the elements and is unable to control his own course," Garver says.

Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011

"I think that the boat drawings might represent Proust's feelings, as if he were being buffeted around by the elements and is unable to control his own course," Garver says.

Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011

The period from 1922 to 1927 saw the release of these books by summer-born authors: posthumously published installments of Proust's In Search of Lost Time 1923, etc.

Dave Astor: The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History Dave Astor 2011

The boats could refer to the Greek gods, dioscuri, who protected sailors and whom Proust mentions in the letter, or the boats may also reflect Proust's anxiety and emotional turbulence.

Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011

Proust's published work that's 1.5 million words long.

Snowing Again in Santa Fe... grrm 2010

The period from 1922 to 1927 saw the release of these books by summer-born authors: posthumously published installments of Proust's In Search of Lost Time 1923, etc.

Dave Astor: The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History Dave Astor 2011

In his Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire, Hitchens, after reminding us of Proust's own answer to the first question, gives a wince-inducing answer to the question about what is his proudest achievement.

Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011

The narrator of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" is transported back to childhood when he smells and tastes a madeleine, a French sweet, but do the odors that enrich basic tastes really provide a stronger cue to memory than other stimuli?

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In his Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire, Hitchens, after reminding us of Proust's own answer to the first question, gives a wince-inducing answer to the question about what is his proudest achievement.

Ashley Rindsberg: On Hitchens Ashley Rindsberg 2011

"I think that the boat drawings might represent Proust's feelings, as if he were being buffeted around by the elements and is unable to control his own course," Garver says.

Elana Estrin: What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail Elana Estrin 2011