Chapter 11 Talk about Prost

Talk about Prost Those who study social science will inevitably refer to Marx's "Das Kapital", but The person who has read the three volumes of "Das Kapital" carefully is rare, and the person who can finish the pages of the first volume is already Very rare.Likewise, students of modern literature love to refer to Marcel Prost. Proust's name, in fact, few people have read his seven-volume masterpiece "Resemblance of Past Events" The first section of Memories. "Marseille Prost is the most talked about and least read of modern writers". This sentence is exactly the truth.

"Remembrance of Things Past" is known as the most difficult novel among modern French novels.one There are seven volumes in total.It is difficult to read not because of the length of the volume, but because of the difficulty of the writing.United States Mrs. Walton, a student of Prost, has said it well: "The Remembrance of Things Past" It is a novel with the heavy style of a German writer.It is difficult to read not because of its length, But because of its depth.Modern fiction readers demand long novels, but only want authors to touch life s surface.Prost's novel is as long as it is deep.he's looking for people

Inner activities, so modern readers can't chew and shake their heads. "Remembrance of Past Things", which describes the extinct nobles and old estates in Paris The life of class, the life and scandalous history of princes, princesses and wives of the first class.young age The famous Prost has mixed in this group, and there is a strong autobiographical element in it.his little Said to focus on inner analysis, the activities of the characters are just the evidence of the spiritual activities he wants to describe. already.In this respect, Prost is carrying on the legacy of his predecessor Stendhal, as far away as Joy

Before his Ulysses, laid the first major path for the modern novel to focus on inner analysis. cornerstone. Because people only talk about Prost and his works, they don't actually read him. Therefore, there are many legends surrounding this writer, all kinds of strange legends about him. The New York "Saturday Literary Review" published a literary satire the year before last. A black blob with nothing, and the title reads: "It is said that Prost thus wrote in the dark." This joke is not too much.Because Prost is indeed afraid of the sun, and works at night of.He suffered from asthma, afraid of seeing the day, afraid of the cold, afraid of smelling all scents, afraid of hearing any sound.

He knew that his life span was not long, and in order to hurry up to work, he declined all invitations. The dragon socializes and socializes, shutting himself in an apartment room, isolating everything from the outside world, and living Live in "memories of past events".Afraid of hearing the sound, he covered the walls of the room with cork, Put on a thick coat, light a tiny lamp, sleep during the day, and get up to work at night.he picks up at midnight Meet friends, talk like owls hidden in dim lights and bloated clothes. Prost was very careful about the trifles and details involved in his writings.according to

Said that he had called the owner of a certain hat in the middle of the night in order to describe it. people: "My dear wife, if you will take back the purple top that you wore when I fell in love with you, Show me Roland's little hat, and that will be my happiest thing. " "But, my dear Marseilles, it was twenty years ago. I have no With this hat". "Well, ma'am, I know you won't show me. You mean to play tricks on me. You make me very Very disappointed." "I tell you again, I didn't keep the old hat." "But Mrs. D kept all the old hats." Prost was still stubborn.

Say. "That's all well and good. But I don't want to open a museum." This character, which made Prost and his works famous, but few people have Courage to open his works.