On Reading
eBook - ePub

On Reading

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

On Reading

About this book

"To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself... Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them."

Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world's most inspirational minds.

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Publisher
Hesperus Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781843916161
eBook ISBN
9781780940274
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism History & Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword by Eric Karpeles
  6. Introduction
  7. On Reading Translator’s Preface to Sesame and Lilies
  8. Lecture I — Sesame. Of Kings’ Treasuries by John Ruskin, Notes by Marcel Proust
  9. Makeshift Memory
  10. Ruskin in Venice
  11. Servitude and Freedom
  12. Resurrection
  13. Biographical note

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