{"id":199,"date":"2008-09-21T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=199"},"modified":"2008-09-21T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T00:14:07","slug":"the-guermantes-way-by-marcel-prousttrans-ck-scott-moncrieff-and-terence-kilmartinrevised-by-dj-enrightmodern-library-2003-this-translationedition-originally-chatto-windus-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/the-guermantes-way-by-marcel-prousttrans-ck-scott-moncrieff-and-terence-kilmartinrevised-by-dj-enrightmodern-library-2003-this-translationedition-originally-chatto-windus-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guermantes Way by Marcel Prousttrans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence KilmartinRevised by D.J. EnrightModern Library, 2003 (this translation\/edition originally Chatto &#038; Windus, 1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A central concern of this volume is the gap between what a name conveys to us and what the person who bears that name is really like: how the meanings of a name change from one time of our lives to another, and how all those successive meanings may hold little or none of the reality of a person&#8217;s existence. (Our narrator has already learned this lesson with regard to place-names, and now he realizes that it applies to the human realm as well.) It&#8217;s that same delicious gap in knowledge and perspective: what we know and feel now versus what we felt and knew (or thought we knew) at some point in the past: this gap that comes up over and over again in Proust.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favorite section was that set at Donci\u00e8res: the cold air of this small town and its streets and hotels, the view from our narrator&#8217;s window early in the morning, the warmth of the lighted windows he sees on his way home at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A central concern of this volume is the gap between what a name conveys to us and what the person who bears that name is really like: how the meanings of a name change from one time of our lives to another, and how all those successive meanings may hold little or none of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-proust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}