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Some of my recent purchases.
🤓📚📚📚 Not all of them! 🫣 In order: 1. Daniel Kay, “Petits pans de Proust”, published by Éditions des Instants, 2022 — essay/poetry. 2. “Proust: On the Proper Use of...
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Vermeer 🖼, Proust 🖋: “the little patch of yellow wall”
💛✨ In this Sunday’s instalment, the famous episode depicting Bergotte’s death in “The Prisoner”, the fifth volume of “In Search of Lost Time”. 🛌⏳📚 Just like all the...
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This morning, a little Tatave x Proust collab ✨📚🛍✨ Did you spot it?
This morning, a little Tatave x Proust collab ✨📚🛍✨ – did you spot it? So don’t hesitate to tag your BAE in the comments. 🥸 It’s an exclusive on @proustagram and in...
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Bergotte, Elstir, Vinteuil…
🖋🖼🎼 What on earth?! 🤔 This Sunday, we’ll be trying to unravel the mystery of creation and identify the figures of the creator in “In Search of Lost Time”! 📚👼🏻🙌🏻✨ A...
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Sartre loved reading Proust: did you really doubt it?!
🤓📚 In “La Cérémonie des adieux”, published in 1981, Sartre recalls reciting passages from “In Search of Lost Time” @normalesup, together with his friend Paul Nizan....
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I received this little book this morning in a bubble-wrap envelope from a second-hand bookseller who is also a stamp collector…
I received this little hardback volume this morning in a bubble-wrap envelope from a second-hand bookseller who specialises in stamps; it’s an old library copy in...
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Which edition of Proust are you reading?
👨🏻📚✨ A century of publishing summed up in one tiny story (yes, really)! 🤪 Above, on the front page! 🗞📺☝🏻 Come on then: tell me all about your Proust! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥...
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What is the value of friendship in Proust’s work?
👨🏻👱🏻♂️👩🏻🦱👩🏻🦰 In his novel “In Search of Lost Time” 📚⏳, as in his correspondence 📝📬, it seems that, for Marcel Proust, friendship is nothing more than a...
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Georges Cattaui published “Proust: Iconographic Documents” in 1956.
Georges Cattaui published “Proust: iconographic documents” in 1956. @editionsdelherne have just reissued it with a blue hardback cover and a new title: “Les Amis de...
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From Cézanne to Proust.
🖼🖋 “We often retain a less clear impression of people we’ve seen very often, as the overlapping of different images makes their outlines less distinct.” 🫥 — Marcel...
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“In Search of Lost Time”: “the dress-as-artwork”?!
✨🧵🪡🖋📚✨ Episode 2/2 of the story is now online – you can find it amongst the Featured Stories! 🤓👏🏻 @ysl @labnf @radiofrance @mjlafon @la_nrf @editions_gallimard and...
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Jean-Jacques was just as much of a loner as little Marcel.
👥 That is not the only thing they have in common, and it seems to me that one could draw parallels between certain passages from the “Confessions” or the “Rêveries of...
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Marcel Proust died on 18 November 1922, in the afternoon, at an hour that remains unknown…
those closest to him – his brother Robert Proust and his maid Céleste Albaret on the one hand, and his oldest friend Reynaldo Hahn on the other – disagree on the...
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Seriously, what’s with that title: “In Search of Lost Time”?!
It sounds like a quantum physics primer for dummies! 🤪 Pfff… 🙄 Well, well: the answer’s in my story. There you go. @ratp @labnf @editions_gallimard @amisdeproust
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@editions.sillage publishes a wealth of interesting titles, including at least ✌🏻 volumes that any proutien…
@editions.sillage publishes a wealth of interesting titles, including at least ✌🏻 volumes that every self-respecting proutien simply must be familiar with: 1) Mr...
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Proust readings and Proustian musings: tonight, a little tongue-in-cheek phrase, as clever as it is convoluted.
🖐🏻👃🏻😝 These are the closing words of Jean-François Revel’s (1924–2006) essay, entitled “On Proust”, which was published in 1960. 🤓☝🏻 📌 “To speak of an author is to...
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It is in “Around Madame Swann”, the opening pages of “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” 🌸🌺, that the…
young Marcel finally gets to see and hear La Berma in “Phaedra”. 🎭 But he came away from the morning feeling disappointed. His expectations were too high. 🤯 At the...
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A cathedral-like work or a garment-like work?
A cathedral-like creation or a dress-like creation? 💒👗🤔 A Sunday story in two parts 📕📗, available in the Featured Stories! 🖋✨🥰
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Proust-crastination
… in Rivebelle 🕰🤒⛱ 📗 E x c e r p t 🖋 For some time now, Bergotte’s words – in which he expressed his conviction that, despite what I claimed, I was destined above all...
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In 1912, Marcel Proust conceived a vast novel in two major, almost dialectical parts: “Time…
Lost” and “Finding Time Again”. The work as a whole was titled “The Intermittences of the Heart”. ❤️🩹❤️💔❤️🩹❤️💔… as shown in the previously unpublished volume...
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Proust’s 3 (or 4) centuries.
👨🏻👨🏻🦳👴🏻 Proust’s 3 (or 4) centuries. 😵💫 Did you know? This is at least the fourth time that the publishing world, newspapers and the media have been getting all...
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It is by no means (not even remotely) the book that is discussed most frequently in the vast body of Proustian literature, and…
It is by no means the most talked-about book in the vast body of Proustian literature, and yet… It is ESS-EN-TIAL!! 📚🤓 All the paintings to which Proust alludes, and...
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Did you know? The famous ‘Proust’s madeleine’… wasn’t always a madeleine!
😳🤯 Explanation in a story.☝🏻🤓 Hi @cyril_lignac!
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The catalogue for the exhibition “Marcel Proust: The Making of the Work”, published by @labnf and the…
The catalogue for the exhibition “Marcel Proust: The Making of the Work”, published by @labnf and @editions_gallimard, is now available in bookshops! 🙌🏻 In 2022, we...
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