tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post4192793567087759967..comments2024-03-28T09:33:29.705+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: Bastille Day: A Great French Novel Clothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-10098823457386968682020-11-21T17:03:28.760+00:002020-11-21T17:03:28.760+00:00Oh interesting comparison! I have seen mentions of...Oh interesting comparison! I have seen mentions of the Versailles incident but don't know much about it. (It comes up in Nancy Mitford's Pursuit of Love, but Fabrice says it is a boring story... )<br />Love the idea of reading the books of 100 years before. <br /><br />Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-72242849509468029362020-11-18T11:28:30.568+00:002020-11-18T11:28:30.568+00:00I read The Grand Meaulnes in 2013 as part of a sel...I read The Grand Meaulnes in 2013 as part of a self-designed project I called Reading 1913, which had a wonderful reading list only partially completed. The first section of GM reminded me of the Moberly-Jourdain incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_of_Petit_Trianon, in which two Englishwomen may have had a time-travel experience, or were the walkers-on in some private party, in the gardens of Versailles. They were never able to get back into that particular other place, try as they did.<br />Citronyellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756931188297902463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-71426226112710790122014-07-19T08:37:27.266+01:002014-07-19T08:37:27.266+01:00Oh great tipoff Harriet, thanks very much. I have ...Oh great tipoff Harriet, thanks very much. I have not read much by Zola, and will certainly seek that one out. And yes, overall my old-person's verdict on the Alain-Fourner was still good!Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-26208348785254667582014-07-19T07:28:23.339+01:002014-07-19T07:28:23.339+01:00Speaking of France and clothes in French novels, a...Speaking of France and clothes in French novels, are you familiar with The Killing by Zola? The heroine, if such she can be called, has some of the most stunning dresses I've ever seen described -- and that's only in the first few chapters. I see what you mean about Meaulnes, though I still think it's a great novel.harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04470091985662379182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-83885029693457864152014-07-16T09:10:28.993+01:002014-07-16T09:10:28.993+01:00Well - given the length of the current pile AND li...Well - given the length of the current pile AND list I probably won't be looking at Izzo any time soon. Maybe if it turns up somewhere. At the moment I'm having a real go at the TBR pile....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-3631021240399945112014-07-15T23:53:21.215+01:002014-07-15T23:53:21.215+01:00This looks interesting (and not very long?). I rea...This looks interesting (and not very long?). I read a review that compared it to Catcher in the Rye (for a different generation of course). What do you think?<br /><br />I read the first book in Izzo's Marseilles Trilogy and it is very noir. My comments at the time I read it (on goodreads) were "A lot too hard-boiled for my personal tastes. I liked reading about the racial tensions in the city and getting a (different) picture of French life. The book is well written and kept me interested. But I probably won't read the rest of the trilogy." Have reconsidered since but don't have the other two so... who knows. TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-82561441763300371612014-07-15T15:32:23.088+01:002014-07-15T15:32:23.088+01:00I'm surprised you found him TBH. I'm a laz...I'm surprised you found him TBH. I'm a lazy blogger in that I don't have tags or labels or an index... maybe I ought to do so going forward. (Or employ a secretary - while I read!) col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-65499130394668940462014-07-15T15:28:38.997+01:002014-07-15T15:28:38.997+01:00Yes of course, highly unreasonable. I looked him u...Yes of course, highly unreasonable. I looked him up in your blog, and you mentioned him in the same entry as Prayer for Owen Meany, and I was obviously so excited at finding an other fan of that book that I missed the Frenchman....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-42940569922644020222014-07-15T15:14:09.352+01:002014-07-15T15:14:09.352+01:00Jean-Claude Izzo - I think he is another "dec...Jean-Claude Izzo - I think he is another "deceased" author. I have his Marseille Trilogy - unread, of course. You wouldn't have expected me to buy them and read them would you? That's not how I work.col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-73018498646421261892014-07-15T15:09:23.585+01:002014-07-15T15:09:23.585+01:00I know who Garnier is, though haven't read, bu...I know who Garnier is, though haven't read, but haven't even heard of Izzo. I'll have to go and look it up.... been on your blog?Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-46583654044419568602014-07-15T15:08:48.247+01:002014-07-15T15:08:48.247+01:00I mention Great Gatsby above, and there are some p...I mention Great Gatsby above, and there are some people who feel that Fitzgerald must have read this book, and that it influenced GG (other people think this idea is ludicrous). But I think the role of the narrator is equally problematic in both books. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-48569686279100665022014-07-15T08:51:45.453+01:002014-07-15T08:51:45.453+01:00I think I'll stick to Garnier and Izzo for a s...I think I'll stick to Garnier and Izzo for a slice of France.col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-27912139927048561542014-07-14T21:49:47.822+01:002014-07-14T21:49:47.822+01:00I expect I would take a revisionist view of Meauln...I expect I would take a revisionist view of Meaulnes and the narrator if I read it again now, with a few decades and an almost-grown-up son's worth of perspective. Maybe the staid narrator could learn a bit more than he does from Meaulnes' sense of adventure.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06011296681890229306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-17418435755523002362014-07-14T14:46:02.632+01:002014-07-14T14:46:02.632+01:00It was a real Paris adventure Margot, I was deligh...It was a real Paris adventure Margot, I was delighted with what I now think of as my garden. And it was a pleasure for me to find that I still like the book a lot, unlike the Guest Blogger!Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-15788618885587693452014-07-14T13:23:37.862+01:002014-07-14T13:23:37.862+01:00Moira - What a lovely garden you discovered! That&...Moira - What a lovely garden you discovered! That's wonderful. I really like finding little places like that. About the book? It's an interesting premise, that's for certain. And I had to laugh at CiB's Chief Guest Blogger's description of Meaulnes. Funny isn't it how perspectives change as we mature...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com