06-18-2022, 03:43 PM
James Merrill: For Proust
You can't read Proust and not read Gerard de Nerval's, the redline under that name is like an intense passion, or for weak folks, lava.
Story, Sylvie.
Read Sylvie and, if you get into it, and when you come to the last sentence, after having read it all, it hurts you. It's a once in a lifetime experience, that story.
And you see the difference in Nerval and Proust. Why Proust segregated his life and Nerval hanged himself in the midst.
You can't read Proust and not read Gerard de Nerval's, the redline under that name is like an intense passion, or for weak folks, lava.
Story, Sylvie.
Read Sylvie and, if you get into it, and when you come to the last sentence, after having read it all, it hurts you. It's a once in a lifetime experience, that story.
And you see the difference in Nerval and Proust. Why Proust segregated his life and Nerval hanged himself in the midst.