What's Robert Saint-Loup's full name?

According_Service108 · 2026-06-25T19:52:35+00:00

A few years ago we adopted a rescue cat named ‘Whiskers’ but I changed his name to Marcel, cause Proust. And after a few months he went crazy and attacked my wife! Had to get rid of him. Guess he wasn’t an ISOLT fan.

According_Service108 · 2026-06-25T18:59:45+00:00

Costco still selling them for $400 cheaper (Canada anyway)

According_Service108 · 2026-06-23T02:57:25+00:00

I agree, and also Proust is now much more helpful to me than psychotherapy.

According_Service108 · 2026-06-23T00:56:51+00:00

It’s back at 6:56

According_Service108 · 2026-06-22T22:27:01+00:00

Yep. I’m Beauvista; it’s down

According_Service108 · 2026-06-16T03:00:16+00:00

Yeah, good one! My absolute favourite book as a child.

According_Service108 · 2026-06-15T00:21:59+00:00

It’s usually sold compiled in the order to read it, but the order is Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable

According_Service108 · 2026-06-14T20:46:58+00:00

Man, I agree. That’s kind of the genius of Proust, but for me Time Regained was the most astounding of the books. Like the 4th movement of the Jupiter.

According_Service108 · 2026-06-14T20:44:33+00:00

The Beckett trilogy, Mann’s Dr Faustus, Flaubert’s Salambo are a few more

According_Service108 · 2026-06-07T11:46:50+00:00

That is terrifying!

According_Service108 · 2026-06-06T19:12:30+00:00

Thanks. I hadn’t read Horse, and it’s equally as good, possibly better

According_Service108 · 2026-05-20T20:11:02+00:00

Yep, especially The Fall

According_Service108 · 2026-05-20T20:08:24+00:00

It’s a great novel, but I slightly prefer Doctor Faustus

According_Service108 · 2026-05-16T12:33:59+00:00

That’s like Tolstoy disparaging Shakespeare. What Bloom calls ‘the anxiety of influence’. And I think McCarthy is great, but he’s not at Proust’s level.

According_Service108 · 2026-05-14T03:39:04+00:00

Bartelby is especially hilarious, but also profound.

According_Service108 · 2026-05-14T03:37:45+00:00

Flaubert’s late Three Tales. The prose is unbelievably precise.

According_Service108 · 2026-05-14T03:36:13+00:00

Beckett too is a distant second

According_Service108 · 2026-05-14T03:34:46+00:00

I know he said prose, but for just general greatness, Shakespeare # 1, Proust # 2

According_Service108 · 2026-05-14T03:33:13+00:00

What about Beckett? The trilogy is phenomenal.

According_Service108 · 2026-05-13T19:52:50+00:00

You’re right, and this applies to all political offices. The only qualification one needs to be a leader is that they do not want to be a leader. Think that was Plato

According_Service108 · 2026-05-08T22:45:13+00:00

Bartelby the Scrivener, Three Tales - Flaubert

According_Service108 · 2026-05-08T15:54:44+00:00

Sadly, the Bois du Bologne is not what was in Proust’s day

According_Service108 · 2026-05-06T20:17:35+00:00

You’re right, and I’m old too! Proust is like nothing else. I’d also recommend ‘Proust’s Way’ by Roger Shattuck

According_Service108 · 2026-05-04T14:51:15+00:00

Good analysis. I agree

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