Friday, May 15, 2009

lundi le dix-huit mai


Ok...now I've moved- back to normal <3


J'ai fait un peu de bien ; c'est mon meilleur ouvrage.
François-Marie Arouet, dit VOLTAIRE, Épitres CXXI, à Horace
I did a little bit of good; it's my best work.


Trivia: Troubled by asthma and neuroses, as well as by the deaths of his parents, THIS AUTHOR increasingly withdrew from external life and after 1907 lived mainly in a cork-lined room, working at night on his monumental cyclic novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (16 vol., 1913-27; tr. Remembrance of Things Past; a total of 3200 pages!!!)
Déjeuner: School Pizza
7th grade:
  • Little sheet
  • QUEL TEMPS FAIT-IL AUJOURD'UI?
  • Newspaper challenge. How well do you know your world cities...Quel temps fait-il en Londres aujourd'hui? Il fait...
  • Blue Book Pages 192-196 A-F

DEVOIRS: BLUE BOOK IF NOT FINISHED

8th grade:

  • little 're' verb quiz...
  • Possible interrogative / demonstrative adjective quiz.
  • Commencez le Vocabulaire Unité 7 - Les Loisirs.
  • Feuille de Vocabulaire...

18 comments:

Harriet said...

I hope that the moving all goes well and that you are happy with your new apartment! :)

lucie perhaps said...

Proust, Marcel (märsĕl` prst), 1871–1922, French novelist, b. Paris. He is one of the great literary figures of the modern age. Born to wealthy bourgeois parents, he suffered delicate health as a child and was carefully ministered to by his mother. As a young man he ambitiously mingled in high Parisian society and wrote his rather unpromising first work, Les Plaisirs et les jours (1896; tr. Pleasures and Regrets, 1948; new tr. Pleasures and Days, 1957). Troubled by asthma and neuroses, as well as by the deaths of his parents, he increasingly withdrew from external life and after 1907 lived mainly in a cork-lined room, working at night on his monumental cyclic novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (16 vol., 1913–27; tr. Remembrance of Things Past, 1922–32, rev. tr. In Search of Lost Time, 1992; new tr. 2002).

The first of the novel cycle, Du côté de chez Swann (1913, tr. Swann's Way, 1928) went unnoticed, but the second, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919, tr. Within a Budding Grove, 1919), was awarded the Goncourt Prize. Proust's semiautobiographical novel cycle is superficially concerned with its hero's development through childhood and through youthful love affairs to the point of commitment to literary endeavor. It is less a story than an interior monologue. Discursive, but alive with brilliant metaphor and sense imagery, the work is rich in psychological, philosophical, and sociological understanding. A vital theme is the link between external and internal reality found in time and memory, to which Proust sees humanity's strivings subjugated—time mocks the individual's intelligence and endeavors; memory synthesizes yet distorts past experience. Most experience causes inner pain, and the objects of human desires are the chief causes of their suffering.

In Proust's scheme the individual is isolated, society is false and ruled by snobbery, and artistic endeavor is raised to a religion and is superior to nature. Only through the vision gained in works of art can the individual see beyond his or her subjective experience. Proust's ability to interpret innermost experience in terms of such eternal forces as time and death created a profound and protean world view and his work has influenced generations of novelists and thinkers. His vision and technique have come to be seen as vital to the development of modernism. Most of his correspondence has been published (21 vol., P. Kolb, ed., 1970–93), as has his draft of an early novel, Jean Santeuil (1952, tr. 1955), and Contre Sainte-Beuve (1954, tr. On Art and Literature, 1896–1919, 1958).


hellz yeah <3

Monk Esq. said...

Marcel Proust

Anonymous said...

Marcel Proust. I think its wrong though.


<3Krissy

Anonymous said...

Marcel proust

megan schneider

Anonymous said...

Proust, Marcel (märsĕl` prst), 1871–1922, French novelist, b. Paris. He is one of the great literary figures of the modern age. Born to wealthy bourgeois parents, he suffered delicate health as a child and was carefully ministered to by his mother. As a young man he ambitiously mingled in high Parisian society and wrote his rather unpromising first work, Les Plaisirs et les jours (1896; tr. Pleasures and Regrets, 1948; new tr. Pleasures and Days, 1957). Troubled by asthma and neuroses, as well as by the deaths of his parents, he increasingly withdrew from external life and after 1907 lived mainly in a cork-lined room, working at night on his monumental cyclic novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (16 vol., 1913–27; tr. Remembrance of Things Past, 1922–32, rev. tr. In Search of Lost Time, 1992; new tr. 2002).

The first of the novel cycle, Du côté de chez Swann (1913, tr. Swann's Way, 1928) went unnoticed, but the second, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (1919, tr. Within a Budding Grove, 1919), was awarded the Goncourt Prize. Proust's semiautobiographical novel cycle is superficially concerned with its hero's development through childhood and through youthful love affairs to the point of commitment to literary endeavor. It is less a story than an interior monologue. Discursive, but alive with brilliant metaphor and sense imagery, the work is rich in psychological, philosophical, and sociological understanding. A vital theme is the link between external and internal reality found in time and memory, to which Proust sees humanity's strivings subjugated—time mocks the individual's intelligence and endeavors; memory synthesizes yet distorts past experience. Most experience causes inner pain, and the objects of human desires are the chief causes of their suffering.

In Proust's scheme the individual is isolated, society is false and ruled by snobbery, and artistic endeavor is raised to a religion and is superior to nature. Only through the vision gained in works of art can the individual see beyond his or her subjective experience. Proust's ability to interpret innermost experience in terms of such eternal forces as time and death created a profound and protean world view and his work has influenced generations of novelists and thinkers. His vision and technique have come to be seen as vital to the development of modernism. Most of his correspondence has been published (21 vol., P. Kolb, ed., 1970–93), as has his draft of an early novel, Jean Santeuil (1952, tr. 1955), and Contre Sainte-Beuve (1954, tr. On Art and Literature, 1896–1919, 1958).


Vachel Carl

Anonymous said...

I'm so excited! The French resturant is on Friday!!!!

<3Krissy

Anonymous said...

Hey, C'est Alexandre! The writer of À la recherche du temps perdu(In Search of Lost Time) is Marcel Proust. o_0

Anonymous said...

marcel proust


jolie <3
[tiffani whitney.]

Anonymous said...

Marcel Proust's ....


mastro

Anonymous said...

Marcel Proust

Andre M.

rain said...

Marcel Proust was the guy who wrote that huge novel

Anonymous said...

congratulations on moving!

Kennifer said...

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust.
TORONTO IS IN CANADA.
Long name, eh?

Sarahhh said...

Marcel Proust. I've heard of him, but I never knew who he was. Until now.

Anonymous said...

Hey miss b let's see the picture number 1.
;)

La petite lapine (the little rabbit): said...

Vous etes tous tres intelligents! (This is missing the accent marks because I am lazy and it's late.)

And, NO - you may NOT see picture number ONE. <3

Harriet said...

Ah, I didn't realize that their was trivia! :( Will you still love me???