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🖋️ “For a long time, I went to bed early.
🖋️ “For a long time, I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, no sooner had I blown out my candle than my eyes would close so quickly that I didn’t have time to think to...
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Rare documents are not common.
And vice versa. 🧐 In 1921, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer reviewed the Vermeer exhibition at the @museeorangerie in @lefigaro, Marcel Proust, who was living a reclusive life 🛌,...
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“The Guermantes Way” tires some readers: the social scene can seem endless.
But if you stop there 🙅🏻♂️, you’ll miss out on the revelations of Sodom, the conclusion of the Albertine cycle, and the grand finale that is “Finding Time Again” 🙌🏻....
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The relationship between Marcel Proust 🤵🏻♂️ and Jacques Rivière, who was first secretary and then editor of @nrf.larevue…
The relationship between Marcel Proust 🤵🏻♂️ and Jacques Rivière – initially secretary and later editor of @nrf.larevue – appears, at first glance, to be one of...
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Due to some sort of misunderstanding, the most famous chapter of the “Search” is undoubtedly ‘A Love of…’
Due to a sort of misunderstanding, the most famous chapter of the “Search” is undoubtedly ‘Swann in Love’ 👨🏻🦰, which follows ‘Combray’ 👦🏻 in the first volume,...
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Here is a document that is rarely seen, even in monographs: the awarding of the @academiegoncourt prize to…
📖🖋️ Here is a document that is rarely seen, even in monographs: the awarding of the @academiegoncourt prize to Marcel Proust for “In the Shadow of Young Girls in...
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Do you remember the “sudden change of heart towards Albertine”?
Do you remember the “sudden shift towards Albertine”? It occurs precisely in Balbec ⛱️, in “Sodom and Gomorrah”, II, 4. Whilst the narrator had promised his mother he...
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Marcel Proust’s first letter to Jacques Rivière is dated around 7 February 1914.
Proust did not date his letters. In it, he replies to a letter from Rivière which has not survived. 🤷🏻♂️ Jacques Rivière, then secretary of @nrf.larevue, was one of...
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“The Guermantes Way” has been reissued 📘✨ with a foreword by Yuji Murakami for @livredepoche
: 🖋️ “The Guermantes Way (1920–1921), the third volume of “In Search of Lost Time”, is a novel about social advancement 🤵🏻♂️🎩. Centred on the name and figure of the...
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Even better than the unduly famous ‘Proust questionnaire’ 📝, there are self-portraits that are entirely…
Even better than the unduly famous ‘Proust questionnaire’ 📝, there are self-portraits written entirely by Marcel himself, from around the same age. For example, in a...
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This second volume 📗 of the “Search” is introduced and edited by Julie André, who explains the title as follows…
This second volume 📗 of the Search for Lost Time is introduced and edited by Julie André, who explains the book’s title as follows in her preface: 🖋️ “By ultimately...
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You’re no doubt familiar with this photograph 🎞️ of Marcel Proust as a teenager, taken by Paul Nadar (son of Félix…
Tournachon, known as Nadar), dated 24 May 1887. But are you familiar with this “Postscript” from Marcel Proust to Daniel Halévy, in one of the first letters he wrote...
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Le Livre de Poche @livredepoche began reissuing “In Search of Lost Time” in 2022, to commemorate…
Le Livre de Poche @livredepoche began reissuing “In Search of Lost Time” in 2022 to mark the anniversary of Marcel Proust’s death in 1922. ✨🌟 The first volume,...
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Excerpt from Marcel Proust’s first interview, published on 21 December.
Excerpt from Marcel Proust’s first interview, published on 21 December 1913 in “Le Miroir” 🪞📰: “A book has just been published 📗, entitled “Swann's Way”. The author’s...
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A few lines by @evelyneblochdano in this 2017 book published by @editionsstock, which won the “Prix Céleste”…
A few lines by @evelyneblochdano from this 2017 book published by @editionsstock, which won the “Prix Céleste Albaret” 👌🏻: 🖋️ The young girls in the questionnaire...
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The Faure family had two daughters 👧🏻👧🏻, and the Proust family had two sons 👦🏻👦🏻.
The Faure family had two daughters 👧🏻👧🏻, whilst the Proust family had two sons 👦🏻👦🏻. Dr Adrien Proust was a member of a health committee set up by the MP Félix Faure...
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A wonderful book 📓 has just been published by @editions_bouquins; it is entitled “Jacques Rivière: critic and…”
A truly beautiful book 📓 has just been published by @editions_bouquins; it is entitled “Jacques Rivière: Criticism and Creativity” and opens with a foreword by...
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In March 2018, I discovered the “Correspondence 1914–1922” by Marcel Proust and Jacques Rivière, published by…
In March 2018, I discovered “Correspondance 1914–1922” by Marcel Proust and Jacques Rivière, published by @editions.sillage ✨. From their letters 📬, I have noticed...
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Colette is a novelist and memoirist.
Colette was a novelist and memoirist. Her long sentences, her account of her childhood in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye 🏡, her contemplation of nature, her celebration of...
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Proust and Rivière worked together – author and publisher – on Proust’s move from @editionsgrasset to…
Proust and Rivière worked together – author and publisher – to move Proust from @editionsgrasset to @la_nrf, and then to vigorously promote “The Search” in the...
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Another gem ✨ unearthed by Max for @ivressedelire.librairie in Quimper: the correspondence between Marcel…
Proust and Daniel Halévy, first published in 1992 by Éditions de Fallois. 📔💌 🖋️ “At the start of the school year in October 1887, Daniel Halévy started Year 9 and, at...
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🖋️ “Dear Proust, so wise – as I have demonstrated – yet already blending wisdom with sensitivity through the…
🖋️ “Dear Proust, so wise – as I have demonstrated – yet already blending, within that wisdom, a nascent and painful sense of alienation, perceptible through the most...
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Jacques Bizet is a sort of Proustian alter ego.
👦🏻👦🏻 The son of the composer Georges Bizet 🎻 and Geneviève Halévy, Jacques Bizet became friends with Proust at the Lycée Condorcet, although they had already met...
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🖋️ “That’s where we’d find the medallions and the locks of hair
Portraits of people with white or blonde hair, and dried flowers “Whose scent mingles with the scents of fruit.” I came across “Le Monde de Proust: Photographs by...
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