Kate Zambreno

This year, two programs in the Chicago Humanities Festival stand out as tributes to two modern masters who were also two of the greatest mama's boys of all time. First, a discussion of Marcel Proust, the shut-in whose literary masterpiece "Remembrance of Things Past" unfolded with the whiff of a macaroon, with fiction writer Lydia Davis, translator of the new English edition of the first volume, "Swann's Way," and scholar Mary Ann Caws, author of an illustrated Proust biography. Next, Davis and Caws participate on a panel celebrating American surrealist Joseph Cornell, the reclusive fabric salesman and assemblage artist made famous for his boxes and fetishized film collages of forgotten screen heroines. New Yorker poetry editor Alice Quinn and former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand participate in the discussion.

The Proust discussion takes place November 8 from 10-11:30am at the Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State. The Cornell panel takes place at that same day at the Harold Washington Library Center, from 1-2:30pm. Tickets are $5, $6 at the door. For tickets call (312)494-9509 and for more information on the Chicago Humanities Festival see our listings in This Week's Action or visit www.chfestival.org.

(2003-11-05)

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