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Thank you, Mr. Hedges, for including and/or pairing great works of literature like In Search of Lost Time and Moby Dick with your critique of the moral, social, political and economic currents that structure our current paradigm. I'd love it if you'd at some point consider unpacking Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks in the light of capitalism and "market values."

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I guess I shouldn't have expected a talk on Proust to be as articulate and insightful as the author himself. I feel about this the way the professor feels about reading third-party scholarship on Proust. But it was an opportunity to recall how much I enjoyed "Swann's Way."

I would have liked some practical discussion about the different translations that are now available. No doubt Gorky would have benefited from a good Russian translation in order to have come to a more favorable opinion. I feel that lack is probably what came between Shakespeare and Tolstoy.

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I once read: “The only thing that’s lost in translating poetry, is the poetry”.

I also recall our most literate film critic, Pauline Kael on a film version of Proust: “The film misses the rhythms of the original, and in Proust the meaning is often in the rhythm.” Learning conversational French is quite possible, but for an adult written French at this level very difficult. It’s one of life’s unfortunate circumstances.

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I disagree , the true 'language' of poetry is universal , voiceless , timeless : it is art. But yes , some subtlety IS lost in translation. And some translations are better than others.

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'Memory of Things Past' is the name as I remember it : I read it in English 30 or so years ago. Such vivid dreamlike prose.

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Also think about A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. 12 volumes.

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