Comments on: Jocelyn Brooke http://booktwo.org/notebook/jocelyn-brooke/ The future of Literature Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Bridle http://booktwo.org/notebook/jocelyn-brooke/comment-page-1/#comment-49708 James Bridle Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:55:03 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=640#comment-49708 A little picky I think - longing, in the sense of a strong persistent yearning for something unobtainable - not necessarily the past itself, but the experience and sensations of it - is a large part of Proust and Brooke for me. Perhaps another, more critical, term would be better, but hey, it's New Year's Eve. A little picky I think – longing, in the sense of a strong persistent yearning for something unobtainable – not necessarily the past itself, but the experience and sensations of it – is a large part of Proust and Brooke for me. Perhaps another, more critical, term would be better, but hey, it’s New Year’s Eve.

]]> By: steve http://booktwo.org/notebook/jocelyn-brooke/comment-page-1/#comment-49701 steve Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:44:47 +0000 http://booktwo.org/?p=640#comment-49701 Can you expand on Brooke's "deliberately Proustian longing for things past"? I ask because Proust's novel does not, as far as I can recall, express any particular longing for the past. It evokes the experience of regaining time past, time lost, yes, but is nothing to do with lush nostalgia. Perhaps I'm being picky because Proustian has long been pigeonholed, mainly because of the Shakespearian mistranslation of Moncrieff's original title. Can you expand on Brooke’s “deliberately Proustian longing for things past”?

I ask because Proust’s novel does not, as far as I can recall, express any particular longing for the past. It evokes the experience of regaining time past, time lost, yes, but is nothing to do with lush nostalgia. Perhaps I’m being picky because Proustian has long been pigeonholed, mainly because of the Shakespearian mistranslation of Moncrieff’s original title.

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