1 | And so on, all the way through Proust - in French, naturally - Goethe, and Porter Smith' s "Chinese Materia Medica." | |
2 | The same, in truth, that is found in Proust's work or in the landscape of Plotinus: a nostalgia for a lost paradise. | |
3 | And through all these complications, in the case of Proust, what's interesting is that he should be explicitly attacking homosexuality while also being homosexual himself. | |
4 | Forster loved Richard Wagner and felt an affinity with Marcel Proust, a writer for whom musical phrasing was a paradigm both for art and for life. | |
5 | But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust. |