The Delhi Proustians – C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Proust’s High Commissioner Delhi Proustians by The Delhi Walla - April 30, 2015April 30, 20151 A biography by Jean Findlay. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] There happens to be a very, very long novel. It has seven volumes, 200 characters and 1.2 million words. A Scotsman, who was an extremely sensitive homosexual and extremely fond of giving blow jobs, translated this book’s first six volumes from its original French into English and named it after a line by Shakespeare. C.K. Scott Moncrieff‘s Remembrance of Things Past became the window through which the English-speaking world first viewed Marcel Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. An early reader of Mr Moncrieff’s translation was writer Virginia Woolf, who, wrote: “Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if
Atget’s Corner – 776-780, Delhi Photos Delhi Pics by The Delhi Walla - April 30, 2015April 30, 20150 The visible city. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] Delhi is a voyeur’s paradise and The Delhi Walla also makes pictures. I take photos of people, streets, flowers, eateries, drawing rooms, tombs, landscapes, buses, colleges, Sufi shrines, trees, animals, autos, libraries, birds, courtyards, kitchens and old buildings. My archive of more than 25,000 photos showcases Delhi’s ongoing evolution. Five randomly picked pictures from this collection are regularly put up on the pages of this website. The series is named in the memory of French artist Eugène Atget (1857-1927), who, in the words of a biographer, was an “obsessed photographer determined to document every corner of Paris before it disappeared under the assault of modern improvements.” Here are Delhi photos numbered 776 to 780. 776. National Museum 777. Hauz Khas