The Matinée Guermantes: Four guests, wigged, with and without masks and beards
Mme X
The prince de Guermantes
Mme de Forcheville
The former Prime MinisterThese were puppets bathed in the immaterial colours of the years, puppets exteriorized by Time, Time which by Habit is made invisible and to become visible seeks bodies, which wherever it finds it siezes to display its magic lanterne upon them.
~Le temps retrouvé
posted by nuuki at October 31, 2008
3 Comments:
Brilliant
merci!
Mr. Richardson is a gifted, sensitive painter who understands Proust on a level that most scholars have missed, and he gives us this reading through portraits of the characters in such a way that certainly would have
pleased Proust.
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