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... Proust and Joyce and the other masters of the early twentieth century have , in Cyril Connolly's words , ' finished off the novel ' , and yet where there are very strong cultural and sociological reasons , ranging from the dedication ...
... Proust and Joyce and the other masters of the early twentieth century have , in Cyril Connolly's words , ' finished off the novel ' , and yet where there are very strong cultural and sociological reasons , ranging from the dedication ...
Page 127
... Proust , at least if one regards a good deal of A la recherche du temps perdu as being much more comic than many commenta- tors like to allow for ; but it is no part of my present intention to defend Proust against John Bayley's ...
... Proust , at least if one regards a good deal of A la recherche du temps perdu as being much more comic than many commenta- tors like to allow for ; but it is no part of my present intention to defend Proust against John Bayley's ...
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... Proust's formidable recherche of time lost primarily in its inclusive detail ; Nick , has none of Marcel's form - by - association . He tells a chronological story , shifting to different locales and characters but not backward and ...
... Proust's formidable recherche of time lost primarily in its inclusive detail ; Nick , has none of Marcel's form - by - association . He tells a chronological story , shifting to different locales and characters but not backward and ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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