This may well never have happened, as discussed in Elisabeth Ladenson's chapter on Proust and Wilde in The Irish Proust:
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This may well never have happened, as discussed in Elisabeth Ladenson's chapter on Proust and Wilde in The Irish Proust:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/irish-pro...
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Praise for The Irish Proust in The Sunday Independent:
"Compelling study of the ‘Irishness’ of a French modernist"
"A bravura piece of analysis"
"The Irish Proust explores these influences with impressive range and intelligence."
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Dan, Beckett editor extraordinaire, offered some generous praise for The Irish Proust: "This book does what few academic collections do for me: it reminds me of why I turned to literature in the first place".
With contributions from Ambassador Niall Burgess, Isabelle Serça, Elisabeth Ladenson, Michael Cronin, Dan Gunn, François de Breteuil (descendant of Henri), Pierre-Emmanuel Hurpeau (on the piano), and yours truly.
The Irish Proust had an extremely jolly launch last Thursday at the Hôtel de Breteuil, which has housed the Irish Embassy since the 1950s. It was built by Henri de Breteuil, who inspired one of Proust's characters, Hannibal de Bréauté. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
Bonus feature: The original French versions of two chapters about Beckett and Bowen by Nathalie Mauriac Dyer and Isabelle Serça can be read for free here:
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Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and Irish studies, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust's novel and traces the enduring legacy of his work throughout modern Irish letters.
This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring #MarcelProust’s influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work.
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My co-editor, Michael Cronin, and I are pleased to announce the publication of The Irish Proust: Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social. @uksdn.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Numerous reports have also indicated that Macron does not really want any of this to succeed. His strategy may well consist of bringing the far right to power, calculating that it will then fail. He may even want the far right to win the next presidential election, allowing him to return in 2032.
It should be possible to put together a Socialist-led government with support from Macron's party. The fact that Macron has refused to even entertain the idea shows real inflexibility on his part. Conversely, the left could compromise on the pension reform in exchange for the Zucman tax.
"In this ambitious and accomplished survey, McGuinness addresses the tensions embodied within the emerging 'civilisation du journal' [...] An incisive work of criticism, exploring a state of affairs that feels particularly relevant in our post-digital world.' Lisa Hilton, Times Literary Supplement
"Cet ouvrage, remarquablement documenté et agrémenté d’une quinzaine d’illustrations, offre [...] un tour complet des rapports complexes qu’ont entretenus la presse et la littérature à l’époque où celle-ci entrait dans l’ère moderne." Pascal Ifri, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"[A] deeply engaged and nuanced study [of] the relationship of modernist literature to the mainstream press." Edward J. Hughes, French Studies
Liverpool University Press's summer sale is on till 20 July, which means that my (reassuringly?) expensive book is vastly less expensive! Use the discount code 27SUMMER at checkout to get 50% off Hustlers in the Ivory Tower. @livunipress.bsky.social
"[A] deeply engaged and nuanced study [of] the relationship of modernist literature to the mainstream press." Edward J. Hughes, French Studies
MON PAUVRE AMI, ALBERTINE N’EST PLUS
You can donate to the restoration fund here:
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Maya Kulukundis and I recently went in search of the unmarked, dilapidated grave of Proust’s lover Alfred Agostinelli in Nice, and found it after an hour of pacing the cemetery rows. He drowned nearby in the Baie des Anges at the age of 25 after his plane crashed on 30 May 1914.
I will be speaking this weekend at the Dalkey Book Festival
on panels about Dostoevsky (on Saturday, June 14th at 12:30pm) and Proust (on Sunday, June 15th at 3.30pm).
We will be doing our best to win the All-Ireland Summarize Proust contest. Tickets available at the links below.
Yes 7:30 across These Islands. Sorry you can't make it.
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NB: This has been rescheduled from the end of March.
I will be speaking on Zoom this Friday, May 2nd with Colin Foss at 14:30 EST/19:30 UK about my book Hustlers in the Ivory Tower as part of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Unbound series. All welcome! Register here:
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