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A few words about Swann, Legrandin, Bloch and the narrator
: Legrandin is a snob 🤵🏼♂️ who claims to be anti-snob. He claims that snobbery is the “only unforgivable sin”, but as they leave the church in Combray, the narrator...
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In the very first piece from “Marcel Proust’s Circle”, published by @honorechampion, @jeanmarc.quaranta…
In the very first piece from “Le Cercle de Marcel Proust”, published by @honorechampion, @jeanmarc.quaranta discusses Alfred Agostinelli, Proust’s chauffeur and later...
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Paul Morand is a bit of a character.
Paul Morand is a rather odd character. 🫤 A contemporary of Cocteau, whom he met before the “Great War”, he was 17 years younger than Proust. He began an ambitious...
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In the third part of “Swann's Way”, the main character 👦🏻, the author’s alter ego and future…
In the third part of “Swann's Way”, the main character 👦🏻 – the author’s alter ego and future narrator of his vocation 🤵🏻♂️, is fascinated by the beauty and the...
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I’ve just finished reading the essay “Antigone, Queen” 📕 by Lolita Pille.
To my great delight, she sets out an optimistic and proud vision of literature, in which style — the art of language — is essential. ✨ In it, she draws extensively on...
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Here is how É. de Clermont-Tonnerre ✍🏻 (1875–1954), who later reverted to her maiden name, Élisabeth…
Here is how É. de Clermont-Tonnerre ✍🏻 (1875–1954), who later resumed using her maiden name, Élisabeth de Gramont, describes her meeting with Proust at Madeleine...
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Back in Provence, I reread this extract from Léon Daudet’s “Salons et journaux” with a smile 🦌🌳…
Back in Provence, I smiled 🦌🌳 as I reread this extract from Léon Daudet’s “Salons et journaux”, published in 1932: 🖋️ “At about half past seven, a pale young man with...
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Proust did not date his letters, but this two-page letter has been dated Saturday 29 November 1913.
This was 15 days after the publication of “Swann's Way” by Grasset. 📗 The paper is folded, and at first glance, a hastily scrawled message, written without any...
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The B.N.F. @labnf 🏢 and Honoré Champion 📚 @honorechampion have very recently published “Cent lettres”…
The B.N.F. @labnf 🏢 and Honoré Champion 📚 @honorechampion have very recently published “One Hundred Previously Unpublished Letters by Marcel Proust”, in an edition...
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Jacques Guérin (1902–2000) was a renowned collector of manuscripts and first editions 📓📔, who was…
Jacques Guérin (1902–2000) was a renowned collector of manuscripts and first editions 📓📔, best known for having ‘saved’ some of Proust’s furniture, personal effects...
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🖋️ “If a fairy godmother gave me the choice: to become Proust, but to suffer from asthma and insomnia until my…
🖋️ “If a fairy godmother gave me the choice: to become Proust, but to suffer from asthma and insomnia until I died, or to sleep reasonably well and remain myself,...
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In “My Life with Marcel Proust” 📚, published in 2025, @ccusset raves 💗 about Proust’s work and quotes…
In “My Life with Marcel Proust” 📚, published in 2025, @ccusset expresses her enthusiasm 💗 for Proust’s work and, by way of contrast, quotes Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s...
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Proust conceived “Finding Time Again” as a response to “In Search of Lost Time”.
When he was looking for a publisher 🕵🏻♂️ in 1912, he warned that the conclusion of the first volume (a sort of nostalgic reflection on times gone by 🕰️ and a bygone...
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On my return from Rome 🏛️, I began re-reading “Journées de lecture”, a piece published in 1905 in “La Renaissance”…
On my return from Rome 🏛️, I began re-reading “Journées de lecture”, a text first published in 1905 in “La Renaissance latine”, then in 1906 (as a preface to John...
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🖋️ “At our feet lies a narrow, golden beach, still damp, nestled between rocks pierced and re-pierced by the…
🖋️ “At our feet lies a narrow, golden beach, still damp, nestled between rocks eroded time and again by the waves, their bases lined with a blue band of tightly...
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In 1910, Colette 🤵🏻♀️ managed to leave her first husband, Willy: “Eight years of marriage, three years of…
separation: that makes up a third of my life.” She embarked on a career in dance and pantomime, showcasing her talents wherever she went – from cabaret to theatre,...
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Jacques Rivière needs no introduction 💦: he was the first “editor-in-chief” of @nrf.larevue in 1919 and the…
Jacques Rivière needs no introduction 💦: he was the first ‘man at the helm’ of @nrf.larevue in 1919 and Proust’s first ‘real’ publisher. As you know, Rivière is...
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“Swann's Way”.
That title may seem obvious now. And yet, it wasn’t during the author’s lifetime. 🤷🏻♂️ When Proust was looking for a publisher in late 1912, he wanted to publish a...
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Pascal Fouché, who edited the collection of letters between Marcel Proust and Gaston Gallimard, has just…
published and annotated another splendid volume with @editionsgrasset: the correspondence between Marcel Proust 🤵🏻♂️ and Bernard Grasset 🕵🏻♂️. Bernard Grasset...
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Proustian hagiography 🙌🏻 has unfairly assigned a somewhat thankless role to Bernard Grasset 📗, the first…
Proustian hagiography 🙌🏻 has unfairly cast Bernard Grasset 📗 in a somewhat thankless role as the first publisher of “Swann's Way”, the first volume of “the Search”,...
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In 1989, Pascal Fouché published an edition of the correspondence between Marcel Proust 🤵🏻♂️ and Gaston…
Gallimard 🕵🏻♂️. However, following the death of Bernard de Fallois, numerous papers relating to Proust were discovered, notably the manuscript known as the...
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Here are Count Greffulhe and his daughter Élaine aboard their carriage.
🐎 Doesn’t this photograph, taken around 1900, remind you of the last page of “Swann's Way”? 🖋️ “How dreadful!” I thought to myself: “Can these motorcars really be as...
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This month, @nrf.larevue is publishing a feature whose title reminds me of both Baudelaire and Proust.
🏛️🕰️ In “Correspondances: Finding Time Again”, @oliviagesbert and her team reveal, amongst other things, two previously unpublished letters from their illustrious...
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In 1896, @calmann.levy published a collection of short stories, illustrated with drawings by Madeleine Lemaire and…
featuring musical scores by Reynaldo Hahn. The young author, Marcel Proust, was unknown to the public. At the age of 25, he had published only a few society columns...
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