Proust op og ned ad trappen, prust!

Jeg har dybt pinligt ikke fået læst Proust, men det er der andre her på adressen, der har, som denne blogpost er tilegnet med løfte om, at jeg nok skal få det gjort.

1- OP AD TRAPPEN

Max Beerbohms digt "On Proust" fra bogen Max in Verse. Rhymes and Parodies, 1963, købt for en slik ved hollandsk bogudsalg i Helligåndskirken for et halvt års tid siden (har i tyve harft på fornemmelse, at jeg burde få læst Beerbohm, især romanen Zuleika Dobson, han virker som en vild og stilig og meget engelsk humorist, men har ikke fået det gjort, mon nogen af mine bloglæsere har!?) - håndskrevet i en for sent afleveret førsteudgave (!):

(On Proust)

"Dear Esther S----, I'm in distress,
It's very sad! My taste is bad.
The men that boost the work of Proust
(Those scholars and those Gentlemen,
Those Erudite and splendid men,
Of whom the chief is Scott Montcrieff)
All leave me cold. Perhaps I'm old?
'The reason why, I cannot tell,
I do not like the, Doctor fell ...'
But why not like the late Marcel? ...
Perhaps he wrote not very well?
This, bien entendu, cannot be
He was a prince of Paragons
(As undergraduates all agree -
Or did in nineteen-tenty-three-
With full concurrence of the Dons).
I only know that all the Swanns
Are now, as ever, geese to me.
Pity the blindness of poor M.B.!
P.S. How sad that I'm alive!
October Nineteen-twenty-five.

2- NED AD TRAPPEN

Det netop opdukkede eneste ene filmklip med Marcel Proust, på vej ned ad trappen med overskøg ved et celebert bryllup i 1904: