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🥳🎉 Thanks to @livredepoche, you can win the brand-new edition of the first five volumes of the Search, namely: ☝🏻 “Swann's Way” ✌🏻 “In the Shadow of Young Girls in...
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This man, with his arms crossed and his legs crossed, who has a furrowed brow, a distinct parting and, a small…
This man, arms crossed, legs crossed, with a furrowed brow, a distinct parting in his hair and – a little aesthetic whim – a polka-dot bow tie 🐞, this man with a...
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10k race!!! 🥳🎉 Thanks to @classiques_garnier 📒📒📒, you can win: ☝🏻 Marcel Proust, “From Schoolboy to Writer” (paperback), 2025 ✌🏻 Bernard de Fallois, “Writings on...
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Are you familiar with that letter from Proust to Gallimard, in which the author confirms in advance the…
🐝 Are you familiar with this letter from Proust to Gallimard, in which the author anticipates the reputation that Cocteau would later attribute to him – that he was,...
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10k race!!!
🥳🎉 Thanks to @editions_bouquins, you can win: ☝🏻 Marcel Proust, “In Search of Lost Time”, 2021 and ✌🏻 Jacques Rivière, “Criticism and Creation”, 2025 Fancy taking...
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In early 1916, Gaston Gallimard followed the advice of Jacques Rivière and André Gide and re-established contact…
In early 1916, Gaston Gallimard followed the advice of Jacques Rivière and André Gide and resumed his correspondence with Marcel Proust 📩📬. His aim was to publish the...
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🥳🎉 2/5 There are now more than 10,000 of you following @proustagram, and I’d like to thank you all! 🫶🏻 To celebrate reaching this symbolic milestone, I asked several...
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Samuel Beckett’s “Proust” (1930) was a commissioned piece 📠, “an act of understanding in which…
Samuel Beckett’s “Proust” (1930) is a commissioned work 📠, “an act of understanding in which both the work being understood and the person understanding it are...
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10k race!!!
🎁 10k competition!!! 🥳🎉 There are now more than 10,000 of you following @proustagram, and I’d like to thank you all! 🫶🏻 To celebrate reaching this symbolic milestone,...
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Gaston Gallimard 🕵🏻♂️ was the founder of a publishing empire, the management of which was subsequently taken over by…
Gaston Gallimard 🕵🏻♂️ was the founder of a publishing empire, which was subsequently run by his son Claude and then his grandson Antoine, born in 1947. The son of...
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What if Proust’s ‘madeleine’ had stayed…
What if Proust’s ‘madeleine’ had turned out to be… stale bread!? 🤯 Here is the oldest known version to date of what would become the famous ‘madeleine’ episode in...
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Here is an extract from Notebook 4, in which Proust carried out the “graft” 🤵🏻♂️👨🏻⚕️ between his project “Against…
Here is an extract from Notebook 4, where Proust carried out the “graft” 🤵🏻♂️👨🏻⚕️ between his project “Against Sainte-Beuve” and the pages written in 1908 on the...
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Summer reading: The day before yesterday, I found the first of four volumes of… in a ‘book box’ 📦
Summer reading: the day before yesterday, I found in a ‘book box’ 📦 the first of four volumes of the memoirs of Pauline de Broglie (1888–1972), known as the Countess...
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The famous painting 🤵🏻♂️, currently on display at the @museeorsay, was painted in 1892, based on a sketch dated 1 October…
The famous painting 🤵🏻♂️, currently on display at the @museeorsay, was painted in 1892, following a sketch dated 1 October 1891, produced in Normandy and held at the...
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The “Bulletin Marcel Proust” 🤵🏻♂️ is an annual publication of the Society of Friends of Marcel Proust…
The “Bulletin Marcel Proust” 🤵🏻♂️ is an annual publication of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust @amisdeproust. This association was founded in 1947 and the...
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In the summer of 1891, Marcel Proust was in Trouville ⛱️ and met the painter Jacques-Émile Blanche.
Blanche was a man of taste, a painter who moved mainly in high society, and a protégé of Robert de Montesquiou. The two men held each other in high regard. 🫶🏻...
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Out of print for many months 🙅🏻♂️, the extensive correspondence between Marcel Proust and his publisher Gaston…
Gallimard is once again available 🥳 @editions_gallimard in an edition edited by Pascal Fouché: 🖋️ “Following the publication of Marcel Proust’s correspondence with...
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🖋️ “He left as though he had nothing more to say to us.”
🖋️ “He left as though he had nothing more to say to us. He is leaving us, and we needed him. Did he not realise that his friendship had become essential to us, and...
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@editionsdelarchipel recently sent me this lovely little volume by Proust 🩷, entitled “…
alousie” and described as an unpublished work… from 1921! An “unpublished and complete novel” by Marcel Proust? Is that conceivable? Yet that is precisely what the...
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In the January 1920 issue of @nrf.larevue 📓, Jacques Rivière responds to the “minor riot” 💥 caused by the Prix Goncourt…
In the January 1920 issue of @nrf.larevue 📓, Jacques Rivière responds to the “minor uproar” 💥 sparked by the 1919 Prix Goncourt. In it, he defends Marcel Proust, the...
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Whilst “Sodom and Gomorrah” Volumes I and II were being published, on 13 October 1921, Jacques Rivière wrote to Proust the…
Whilst “Sodom and Gomorrah” I and II were being published, on 13 October 1921, Jacques Rivière wrote to Proust explaining why he regarded his work as one of the...
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An “Exhibition of Old and Modern Dutch Paintings” 🖼️ was held in the Jeu de Paume room (in the gardens of…
An “Exhibition of Old and Modern Dutch Paintings” 🖼️ was held in the Salle du Jeu de Paume (Tuileries Gardens) in Paris in 1921. It opened on 21 April 1921 and was...
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Maya Lavault, associate professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre and a member of the Proust ITEM/CNRS team…
Maya Lavault, an associate professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre and a member of the Proust ITEM/CNRS team, recalls in the foreword to this new @livredepoche...
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On 14 November 1923, the first of the three posthumous volumes intended to conclude “the Search” was published, on the…
On 14 November 1923, the first of the three posthumous volumes intended to conclude “the Search” was published; Proust had worked on the proofs a year earlier, during...
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