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Antoine Compagnon is one of the leading experts on Proust and his work, but that is not all…
Antoine Compagnon is one of the most eminent specialists on Proust and his work, but that is not all: a professor emeritus @collegedefrance 🏛️ and a member of the...
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🖋️ “For things to appear new (…) one needs, in art, as in medicine, as in high society, some…
🖋️ “For things to seem new (…) we need, in art as in medicine and in high society, new names.” (TR, III, 726) Whilst I’m working on both Proustian settings and...
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Whilst looking for a publisher in 1912 for “In Search of Lost Time” 🕰️, Proust wrote to Jacques Copeau (one of the…
Whilst looking for a publisher in 1912 for “Le Temps perdu” 🕰️, Proust wrote to Jacques Copeau (one of the founders of @la_nrf) about Gaston Gallimard: 🖋️ “I met him...
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In January 1908, as a New Year’s gift, Mrs Straus (Geneviève Halévy, widow of Georges Bizet 🎻 and…
In January 1908, as a New Year’s gift, Madame Straus (Geneviève Halévy, widow of Georges Bizet 🎻 and remarried) gave Marcel Proust 🤵🏻♂️ five small notebooks which...
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Why (re-)read Proust?
🤓📚 🖋️ “What the reader seeking to return to Proust after twenty years is looking for may well be something other than what they first encountered. If they open “La...
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I devoured “Proust et Cabourg”, Jean-Paul Henriet’s beautiful book published by Gallimard in 2020.
💜 It is a beautiful volume of around 210 pages, brimming with valuable documents, reproduced and laid out to perfection: photographs, postcards, and plans of Cabourg,...
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I’m delighted to announce that @proustagram will be back at @villedecabourg next month!
🌟🤵🏻♂️ This will be an opportunity to talk in a bit more detail about Proust and Cabourg, the Search, his love affairs… and medicine. 👨🏻⚕️🩺 Yes, yes. As a result,...
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Having given up his vocation 🤷🏻♂️, the narrator attends a matinee at the Princess of Guermantes’s house.
The guests all seem to him to be dressed up as if for a masquerade ball: for Time has taken its toll on them, just as it has on him. Among the portraits he painted at...
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In “Finding Time Again” 🕰️, through a series of recollections that draw on involuntary memory 😳…
In “Finding Time Again” 🕰️, through a series of recollections involving involuntary memory 😳 and numerous memories from his past life, the narrator goes on to set out...
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During the war, the narrator spends many months in a sanatorium 🤒🤕🛌, far from Paris (Proust drew inspiration from…
During the war, the narrator spends many months in a sanatorium 🤒🤕🛌, far from Paris (Proust drew inspiration here from a shorter stay he made following his mother’s...
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At the start of “Finding Time Again” 🕰️, Marcel accepts Gilberte’s invitation and stays with her in Tansonville…
At the beginning of “Finding Time Again” 🕰️, Marcel accepts Gilberte’s invitation and stays with her in Tansonville, just as, in “Swann's Way”, Charlus had once been...
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Albertine has “gone” 🐎 and the long process of grieving has begun.
Albertine has “disappeared” 🐎 and the long process of mourning has begun. The narrator launches into a veritable litany punctuated by constant reminders of...
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Notre-Dame de Paris is mentioned only a handful of times in “In Search of Lost Time”, and is not…
really at the heart of the narrator’s aesthetic (or spiritual) fantasies. 🤷🏻♂️ Firstly, because he prefers more modest buildings: the church at Combray, where he...
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A tribute from a brother
👦🏻👦🏻 🖋️ “However far back I may trace my childhood memories to that vague period when the first fragments of memory begin to take shape, I am constantly struck by the...
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François Mauriac (1885–1970) 👨🏻🦳, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature (@nobelprize_org), moved in certain circles in his youth…
François Mauriac (1885–1970) 👨🏻🦳, winner of the 1952 @nobelprize_org in Literature, frequented in his youth the Parisian salons that Proust had frequented 15 years...
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🖋️ “It was around the same time, whilst on holiday in Cabourg 🌤️, that I met a man whose strangeness…
🖋️ “It was around the same time, whilst on holiday in Cabourg 🌤️, that I met a man whose peculiarity drew me in, and I wanted, as was my custom, to get to know him....
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The most beautiful painting in the world!?
🖼️🤩 I had the pleasure of meeting @proustpourtous at @lacigalenantes this week 🌤️. Twenty years ago, Laurence Grenier set out to introduce Proust to as many people as...
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Elstir, exploded view
Elstir, blown up 💥 The painter Elstir 🎨 is one of the three artists who serve as models for the narrator throughout his story, alongside the composer Vinteuil 🎻 and...
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Between Quimper and Balbec…
✨🌦️ Marcel boards the train at Saint-Lazare station with his grandmother for his first visit to Balbec. On the train, he experiences a moment of wonder that is...
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From Gilberte to Albertine…
👩🏻🦰👩🏻 Marcel is in a state of utter despair because, having ‘broken off’ his friendship with Gilberte (from whom he had hoped to win love), he has just spotted her...
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Self-Portrait of Odette Swann
Self-portrait by Odette Swann 🙃🙂: 🖋️ “Oh no, I’m not clever,” said Odette, thinking it sounded rather nice. Deep down, I’m a gullible sort who believes everything...
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Ode to Marcel Proust
🖋️ “Shadow arising from the smoke produced by your fumigations, the face and the voice eaten by making use of the night Céleste, with its gentle vigour, it soaks me...
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🖋️ “So, on those stormy, mild February evenings, the wind — blowing into my heart, which wasn’t…
🖋️ “So, on those stormy, mild February evenings, the wind — blowing through my heart, which it made tremble no less than the chimney in my room, the plan for a trip...
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🖊️ “I realise that, of all my elders, you are the only one I admire without any ulterior motives and without any effort (…)…
🖊️ “I realise that, of all my elders, you are the only one I admire without any ulterior motive and without effort (…) I mean, without criticism, without any...
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