#Listen to Book Notes # D114 2022.1.28
🌈Q: Who is the author?
A:
The author is the French writer Marcel Proust. He was a wealthy man living in 20th-century French high society and suffered from asthma and insomnia throughout his life.
Before the age of 34, he lived a life of youthful madness and vanity.
At the age of 34, his parents died, and he suddenly realized that life was short, and with the help of madeleine cakes to bring him unlimited good memories, he tried to trace those eternally lost times through writing.
Proust makes the past time eternal in his pen tip in his own unique way.
🌈Q: What kind of book is "Reminiscing like a watery year"? What does the world say about it?
1. "Remembrance of the Years like Water" is a huge production of more than 2 million words, consisting of seven volumes, which took 15 years to complete.
In this book, there is almost no clear and unambiguous character image, and some are just memories generated between electric light and flint colliding with objects, which is an emotion and an atmosphere.
However, this huge work that devoted his life to writing, until 30 years after its publication, ushered in a highlight moment, so that the world saw the literary value that can be compared with Balzac's "Comedy of Man"; an exploration of the inner world of man, a description of the external world of man.
The book has been called "a strange book engraved in the history of literature", "the pinnacle of stream-of-consciousness fiction", and "a super classic in the history of human reading".
2. The American writer Joseph Epstein once said: "'Remembrance of a Watery Age' has about 2.4 million words and more than 3,000 pages, and I have read it twice. One of the reasons I insisted on exercising, eating moderately, and checking up once a year after the age of 70 was that I wanted to live long enough to be able to read "Remembrance of The Watery Years" again. ”
The poisonous-tongued Maugham said to himself, "A fervent admirer of Proust, and I read every word of his with relish." ”
Duras, the author of Lover, said, "Proust taught me to read. Virginia Woolf said enviously, "If only I could write something like this." ”
There are also Nabokov, Gide, Jean Coctor, Woody Allen and Wang Xiaobo... Both were admirers of Proust.
🌈 Insight: What did I learn?
Every moment that can be held in the hand is a good time, cherish the people around you; love is to warm each other and grow together; when life does not start again, it is enough to live every day.
S: "Remembrance of the Water Age"