Comments on: Party Going by Marcel Proust http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/08/03/jim-holt-and-inigo-thomas/party_going_by_marcel_proust/ The Blog of the London Review of Books Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/08/03/jim-holt-and-inigo-thomas/party_going_by_marcel_proust/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Martin Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:20:54 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=1102#comment-127 <i>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</i> by Jane Austen <i>Lady Chatterley’s Lover</i> by Mary Whitehouse <i>The Tobacco Shop</i> by Alberto Caeiro (if you allow poems) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Mary Whitehouse
The Tobacco Shop by Alberto Caeiro (if you allow poems)

]]> By: Holt1789 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/08/03/jim-holt-and-inigo-thomas/party_going_by_marcel_proust/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Holt1789 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:52:00 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=1102#comment-126 I think the idea is that Proust's extensive experience as a party-goer/social-climber/fop-about-Paris might have been deployed in the writing of a more vulgar and racy (and entertaining?) novel than the one he actually produced. (Yes, I know--an explained joke is a failed joke.) I think the idea is that Proust’s extensive experience as a party-goer/social-climber/fop-about-Paris might have been deployed in the writing of a more vulgar and racy (and entertaining?) novel than the one he actually produced.
(Yes, I know–an explained joke is a failed joke.)

]]> By: Thomas Jones http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/08/03/jim-holt-and-inigo-thomas/party_going_by_marcel_proust/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Thomas Jones Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:59:31 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=1102#comment-124 Nor can I, to be honest... Party Going by Emily Dickinson would be more like it. Or else Tara Palmer-Tompkinson. Nor can I, to be honest… Party Going by Emily Dickinson would be more like it. Or else Tara Palmer-Tompkinson.

]]> By: Splinno http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/08/03/jim-holt-and-inigo-thomas/party_going_by_marcel_proust/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Splinno Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:33:53 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=1102#comment-123 I'm confused and stupid. I really can't work out whether Proust might, or could never, have written Party Going. Likewise Flaubert's Catch-22. I'd like to read All The Pretty Horses by Katie Price. I’m confused and stupid. I really can’t work out whether Proust might, or could never, have written Party Going. Likewise Flaubert’s Catch-22.

I’d like to read All The Pretty Horses by Katie Price.

]]> By: Martin http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/08/03/jim-holt-and-inigo-thomas/party_going_by_marcel_proust/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Martin Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:42:58 +0000 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/?p=1102#comment-117 Sorry, that should be Anthony Robbins Sorry, that should be Anthony Robbins

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