I saw the dramatization of Proust's last "book" in Cambridge, MA several years ago. Catherine Deneuve played Odette, a casting that would never have occurred to me. The film was quite good. There were no car chases, no explosions, no blood and gore, and I don't think there was a seventeen year old in the house. Just a hushed, reverent audience.
Here is a link to an NYTimes article about the man who created the film. A Mild Mannered Maniac.
The last volume of the great tome is, to my mind, the best, and I found the great denouement utterly thrilling.
The Other Odette
Proust and his masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, will be my obsession, fixation, demon, cattle prod, hobby and motivator in 2007. Will reading Proust, thinking about the man and his milieu and his great novel inform my writing?
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