
Christopher Prendergast: Living and Dying With Marcel Proust
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How Do You Date the Origins of Modernism?
Is it an accident, a distortion based on the accident, that no priest arrives in english and dies in the year that modernism breaks? That is such an interesting question. How one historically dates the origins of modernism is very much an open question. The novel as a whole, constitutes a kind of museum, slowly converting ito a mausoleum that houses an extended cheeks collection. Tell me about the importance of cheeks in priest because it's encyclopaedic.
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