Saturday, 21 September 2019

A Proustian Soliloquy

For logophiles like me who are seized by the spirit of carpe diem, the oeuvre of Proust, Atget and Soofi serve as guiding lights. The act of capturing and metamorphosing our waking moments into literature, through words and images, is surreal. Nay, it is more than that. It is the ultra-real, the creative end to which human reality is hatched.

Organ Grinder by Eugene Atget (1898)
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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