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Christopher Prendergast: Living and Dying With Marcel Proust

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Book Review - Elarcherch Is Death Haunted

Elarcherch is death haunted. There are many deaths that occur in it, though only two are actually staged and the others are reported. The one death that cannot figure in this novel, that is unmentionable. It's not just that it can't be staged, but it cannot even be mentioned in anticipation, except that it is is the death of the mother. That's what i call a black hole. She just disappears into it. This is a narrator looking back from a point in time in which his mother is dead,. He is grieving, and he is creating a kind of cemetery for her. And so they yuar, well, i think maybe the burial

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