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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 19h

This is how long albums used to be. The CD's 80-minute capacity made them longer and longer, with more and more filler.

Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 20h

Happy birthday, Camille Saint-Saëns, whose Violin Sonata #1 was a possible model for the little phrase. There is no little phrase here, but a grand one at 8:03 that always gives me a thrill. To #JessyeNorman ’s Dalila, seducing is devouring. #SaintSaens #Proust #Proustsky

Samson et Delilah: Mon cœur s'ouvre a ta voix - Jessye Norman - Avery Fisher Hall - 1994 (HD)

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 1d

An encouraging sign at her age. 😂

Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 1d

You can supplement its skimpy annotations with A Guide to Proust (which comes with the last volume of the Modern Library set), Vogely, Karpeles, and maps. Carter himself relies HEAVILY on Vogely and Karpeles, so why not.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 1d

For that I am holding out for Oxford, each of the first two volumes of which is the best available, especially if you have no romantic attachment to CKSM. For the latter, the Enright edit remains the best.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 1d

There are various types of errors in the first four volumes, but the fifth is just absolutely riddled with them—some carried over from Scott Moncrieff, many introduced by Carter himself. Unforgivable for such expensive books that claim to be authoritative. This is not the edition of first choice.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

This is the correct answer. 😉

Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

There is also a version disguised, LOL, as an academic paper on foreignization in translation.

James Grieve - Proust For Trio and LANG6023 - Working With The Demented - 2011 | PDF | Marcel Proust | In Search Of Lost Time

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

Here it is, from Meanjin.

Working With the Demented

In the mid-1990s, Penguin decided to prepare a wholly new translation of Marcel Proust’s seven-part novel À la recherche du temps perdu, to compete with the existing version of C.K. Scott-Mon…

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 2d

Grieve doesn't get slammed enough, for his egregious Proust translations and for his public chastisement of his fellow Penguin translators. Ugh.

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Bryan Alistair Charles @bryanacharles.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about Proust in translation/the new IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME for @literaryhub.bsky.social.
Featuring a chat with @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social, whose stunning vol. 2 translation, IN THE SHADOW OF GIRLS IN BLOSSOM, is out now!
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On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been reading #AnneTyler since my teens, off and on, and have never quite outgrown her, even if these days it’s often to humour my sister and have something to talk to her about. I’m several years late with this one. By the way, look at that gorgeous #font (Celeste, Chris Burke, 1994). #booksky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 5d

I know it has its fans but I really hate this #translation. I stopped at the end of chapter 3, bought the Robin Buss, and am waiting for it in the mail. (I had previously nixed the Stuart Gilbert.) It’s the only other available. Let’s see if it’s any better. #Camus #Camussky

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

Coward.

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

I only picked up Baudelaire because of Proust. 😉

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

I think I’m gonna take a while. 😂

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 8d

I rarely read poetry so it's been slow going, just taking it in in bits and pieces for now. But I'm enjoying this #translation of Les Fleurs du mal by Nathan Brown (2021, Verso 2024). At some point, I'd like to compare it with Richard Howard's. Sample below, one of the "banned" ones. #Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Verso, 2024. "Metamorphoses of the Vampire"

Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil. Verso, 2024. "La Métamorphoses du Vampire"

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Robert de Saint-Loup @insearchofproust.bsky.social · 9d

"But there always comes a time in history where he who dares to say that two and two equals four is condemned to death." The Plague, Albert #Camus, tr. Laura Marris. #Camussky (I don't like the use of "where" but whatever.)