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1、Ruskin,ProustandtheArtofFailureCoyle,John.EssaysinCriticism,Volume56,Number1,January2006,pp.28-49(Article)PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPressForadditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eic/summary/v056/56.1coyle.htmlAccessProvidedbyyourlo
2、calinstitutionat03/27/111:14PMGMTRuskin,ProustandtheArtofFailureJOHNCOYLEASRUSKINSREADERSHIPandreputationinexorablywaned,thesixyearsProustworkedonhimwereincreasinglyseenasawasteoftime.Asearlyas1927,VirginiaWoolfnotedthatarecentabridgededitionofModernPainterswo
3、uldsuggestthat,whilepeoplestillwantedtoreadRuskin,theynolongerhadleisuretoreadhiminthemass.Happily,thereremainedPraeterita,abookwhichcontainsasinateaspoontheessenceofthosewatersfromwhichthemany-colouredfountainsof1eloquenceandexhortationspring.Wenoneofusneedma
4、ny2books,wrotetheRuskinofSesameandLilies,andifonlyoneofhisbooksistoberetainedforourcriticalattention,thecompactandaccessiblePraeteritawouldseemthemostfittingforthosewhovalueitsserenityandrestraint.AsRuskinslastwork,italsopossessesacertainvaledictorycharmwhichin
5、ti-matessomesolaceaftertheboutsofmadnessoflateryears.ItanticipatesProust,itstitlealludingtothingspastpossiblyremindingusoftheShakespeariantagwhichScott-Moncrieffappliedtohistranslation.LikeAlarecherchedutempsperdu,itisunfinished,anditsevocativetreatmentofthenar
6、ratorschildhoodrecallssomeofthemostcharacteristicProustianreveries.ThefactthataplanforProusttotranslatePraeteritawasmootedin1907-8mightsuggestthatProustsnovelisbasedonRuskinsautobiography.Nevertheless,Ruskinsauto-biographyispatentlynotanEnglishanalogueofAlarec
7、herchedutempsperdu,whateveritsoccasionalsimilaritiesinsubjectmatterandstructure.WhereProustaimedtocreateatextwhichwouldconstituteitselfintherelationofitsowngenesis,EssaysinCriticismVol.56No.1#TheAuthor[2006].PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress;allrightsreserved.d
8、oi:10.1093/escrit/cgh00228RUSKINANDPROUST29Ruskinsfinalbookisasedate,valedictoryappendixtohislifeandwork,inmanywaysagestureoffinaldetachmentfromboth.Yetthereisevidenceofsedationinthe