by jkvincent | Sep 24, 2022 | novels |
I saw an incredible production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” last night at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown. If you need a refresher on the plot, “Brick” is a former high school athlete who can’t get over the suicide of his close friend...
by jkvincent | Sep 9, 2022 | novels |
In my Proust reading group we are reading the translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and I’m so glad. I know some readers find Moncrieff’s prose too ornate or outdated. Roger Shattuck finds “annoying bloomers and occasional excesses of style.”[1] Lydia Davis, who has a...
by jkvincent | Aug 31, 2022 | novels |
I saw the Argentinian director Maria Alvarez’s film “Le Temps Perdu,” about a Proust reading group of octogenarians in Buenos Aires, at Film Forum in New York. It was wonderful, although I napped a little. Things I noticed: how little you know about these...
by jkvincent | Jun 11, 2022 | novels |
We finished Proust Volume Two. We all laughed out loud when Marcel tried to kiss Albertine, his head swelled to contain the whole universe and then some. We loved the faces changing over time, successions of selves, faces viewed by other selves, how the girls are the...
by jkvincent | Feb 21, 2021 | novels |
My copy of Arthur Waley’s translation of the Tale of Genji is the single-volume Modern Library Edition from 1960 and it’s falling apart. I’m teaching it this semester so I was poking around on abebooks.com the other day looking for a used copy in better shape. Waley’s...
by jkvincent | Jul 17, 2019 | haiku, novels |
I’m happy to report that the volume on the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki, which I have co-edited with Reiko Abe Auestad and Alan Tansman has been published as the latest issue of Josai University’s Review of Japanese Culture and Society. The publication was...
