Posts Tagged ‘Proust’
By Emily Waldorf Have you ever confused beauty with virtue? One of Marcel Proust’s characters, Swann, in his famous work, In Search of Lost Time, falls in love with a debaucherous courtesan, Odette, when he is overcome by her similarity to a Venus-like character in a Botticelli fresco. Eric Eichman, in his article in The […]
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