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Bale is such an expressive performer that Stuart's remembrance of things past attains a Proustian intensity.
(Maybe that's what triggered the Proustian snow days reaction?)
Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...
Reviews of this tale of a bisexual Hungarian writer in 1970s East Berlin use such terms as "Proustian" (Eva Hoffman, New York Times Book Review ) and "masterpiece" (Stanislaw Baranczak, the New Republic ). Praise goes to the novel's lyrical prose, innovative (some say "difficult") structure--which includes a novel within the novel--and its arresting depiction of life behind the Iron Curtain.
Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)
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