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On Reading

"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 on

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  • "Marcel Proust and John Ruskin on reading"
  • "Sur la lecture"
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  • "Proust on reading"
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  • ""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 on"@en
  • "Marcel Proust's fiction is threaded through with evidence of his belief in the importance of reading. A la recherche du temps perdu is rich with references to writers and books that were important to his own style of writing and to his approach to the world. By reading great authors, Proust contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world's most inspirational minds. In particular, Proust admired Ruskin, and in translating Ruskin's works into French, he provided copious annotations about the relationship between the writer and his readers."
  • "This book includes some of those annotations along with a key Ruskin essay, 'Of Kings' Treasuries', and some of Proust's own writings about reading, collected in one volume for the first time. --Book Jacket."

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  • "Essays (teksten)"
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  • "De la lectura"
  • "Om läsning"@sv
  • "Sur la lecture = Tage des Lesens : Faksimile der Handschrift aus der "Bibliotheca Proustiana Reiner Speck""
  • "Les hautes et fines enclaves du passé"
  • "Sur la lecture [Faksimile]"
  • "Sur la lecture. [2], [Faksimile]"
  • "On Reading"@en
  • "Sur la lecture = Tage des Lesens : Faksimile der Handschrift aus der "Bibliotheca Proustiana Reiner Speck" : mit Transkription, Kommentar und Essays"
  • "HAUTES ET FINES ENCLAVES DU PASSE"
  • "On reading"
  • "On reading"@en
  • "On reading. Translated and edited by Jean Autret and William Burford"@en
  • "Les hautes et fines enclaves du passe : edition etablie et presentee par alain coelho"
  • "Sur la lecture/ [Faksimile]"
  • "Sur la lecture = Tage des Lesens"
  • "On reading with Sesame and lilies I: Of kings' treasuries by John Ruskin"@en
  • "Sobre la lectura"@ca
  • "Sobre la lectura"
  • "Sobre la lectura"@es
  • "Sur la lecture [1] [Faksimileband]"
  • "On reading : with Sesame and lilies I : Of kings' treasuries by John Ruskin"
  • "Les Hautes et fines enclaves du passé"
  • "Sur la lecture [Begleitband] Transkription, Kommentar und Essays"
  • "Sur la lecture"@en
  • "Sur la lecture"
  • "Sobre a leitura"
  • "Del piacere di leggere"@it
  • "Del piacere di leggere"
  • "Sobre a leitura"@pt
  • "On reading : translated and edited by Jean Autret and William Burford"@en

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