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Post by John Green on May 27, 2018 0:07:27 GMT
"One essay was discovered by Caroline Weber in researching her book, Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris.Commenting on The Great Parisian Salons, Weber told the Observer: “No one ever knew that Proust wrote the article. It’s brand new.” "Weber, professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University, said that other Proust scholars had not looked through early issues of Le Gaulois, even though Proust is known to have first written for the publication nine months later, using the same Tout-Paris pseudonym. “It’s really exciting. It was hiding in plain sight. " www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/26/proust-women-fin-de-siecle-paris-salonsYou'da kinda thought they'd kinda looked before this. |
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Post by Dale Rumbold on May 27, 2018 9:30:11 GMT
So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
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Post by John Green on May 27, 2018 14:43:00 GMT
So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside! Hi,Dale. No,I was just suggesting that generations of researchers might have been expected to look in earlier volumes to see if there were any other works by Proust. It's another of those 'looking everywhere but the most obvious places' moments which can give hope to us all. |
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Post by tom rogers on May 27, 2018 21:16:50 GMT
So, if you're calling the author of 'A la recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside! Hi,Dale. No,I was just suggesting that generations of researchers might have been expected to look in earlier volumes to see if there were any other works by Proust. It's another of those 'looking everywhere but the most obvious places' moments which can give hope to us all. No worries, John! It's a Python quote (Fish License sketch)! Nice one, Dale  |
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Post by John Green on May 28, 2018 2:08:55 GMT
Hi,Dale. No,I was just suggesting that generations of researchers might have been expected to look in earlier volumes to see if there were any other works by Proust. It's another of those 'looking everywhere but the most obvious places' moments which can give hope to us all. No worries, John! It's a Python quote (Fish License sketch)! Nice one, Dale Ah. I remember they refer to Proust. He gets an odd mention in an Heavy Metal strip,too. It's been a long day. In 1976,preparing a collection of LPs for the Bicentennial, researchers contacted pressing-plants (I think it was pressing-plants) to ask if they had matrices of missing Blues recordings. They had. There's so much out there... |
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Post by tom rogers on May 28, 2018 16:50:59 GMT
You are correct in regards what is "out there." I know from personal experience that not all stones have been turned when it comes to things like your original Proust post. I have personally "re-discovered" a number of "lost" or "unknown" pieces by a well-known sci-fi writer from the 1930s, in places that I had assumed had been well explored by many previous researchers. This is what gives me hope that more missing episodes will surface, from unlikely and likely places.
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Post by John Green on May 28, 2018 18:08:27 GMT
At the risk of going off-topic,Orson Welles claimed,possibly on a TV show, to have written for the pulps,but last I heard,no stories had been traced.
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