<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>In a book I've mentioned before, H. Stuart Hughes' Consciousness and Society</div><div>1880 to whenver, I recently read a bit on the Class (or Writers) of 1905.......</div><div>They included Gide and Proust, the former of whom rejected Swann's Way </div><div>when he worked for a publishing house but whom Hughes speaks about as, if not</div><div>a writer as great as Proust, a writer who courageously explored his inner life on paper</div><div>in the time when Freud was trying to map it out 'scientifically'..........</div><div> </div><div>Born well off, but rejecting that superficial world, a deep moralistic Protestant who turned on Protestantism (but not quite the</div><div>Protestant Ethic and a new "morality"), married but gay late....and more</div><div> </div><div>Hughes' whole chapter, which goes on to
include Mann and Hesse's explorations of the psychology of the self</div><div> </div><div>reminded me once again of the historical importance (re psychology, sexuality, constrictive Puritan values exploded)</div><div>in the Yashmeen and her lovers section of AtD.</div><div> </div><div>Hughes also informs me that Max Weber, depth charge critic of society, spoke out in defense of Germany's "values" as worth defending in that War to End All Wars.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></body></html>