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Marcel Proust: Oeuvres complètes - Les 40 titres et annexes (annotés et illustrés) (French Edition)
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ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Marcel Proust, who in The Captive wrote a 447-word sentence about a sofa, said that he wanted to ‘weave these long silks as I spin them’ and to ‘encircle the truth with a single – even if long and sinuous – stroke’.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
