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The Golden Hour by William Nicholson: review
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - William Nicholson's latest novel, The Golden Hour, takes its epigraph from that arch-worrier, Marcel Proust: “The only true voyage of discovery would not be to visit strange lands but to behold the universe through the eyes of another.
Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer awarded Nobel Prize
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - Some of its previous picks were obscure even to literature experts, while others were widely celebrated authors decorated with numerous other awards. Acclaimed writers who never won the Nobel include Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Graham
Guardian: The symphony and the novel – a harmonious couple?
[The Guardian] as the clarion call of dissonant modernity, has its literary equivalent in the uneasiness that begins to infiltrate the characterisations of, for example, Henry James or Marcel Proust, and the structural devices of Joseph Conrad or Gustav Flaubert.
The Big Society Exists. The Problem is Finding it
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
[Huffington Post UK (blog)] - Marcel Proust said that 'the real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes". Following on from this, maybe the challenge for the Government is to see what is already there, just in a new way, rather than imagine
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