Marcel Prousts News Today

People, and no one even mentions the announced half a million recruits, but Ukrainian Military commissars continue to be angry, and ukrainians flee, in the turunchuk river, near the border with moldova, Border Guards caught a twentytwoyearold odessa resident who got stuck in the reeds and almost died, what are you doing there, you idiot, where are you from, from odessa . The best thing for ukraine, i want to emphasize this, is for it to reach a settlement with the russians. I think it is extreme...

Save this story for later. When one finds the bottom of a barrel being energetically scraped, it is proof, at least, that whatever was once floating on the top must have been very delicious indeed. And so, having reached the very bottom of the barrel marked “Marcel Proust,” the scraping continues, even unto the splintered wood. The usual run of a famous author’s remains is more or less set: first the (disillusioning) biography, then the (surprisingly mundane, money-mad) letters, and final...