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10k race!!!
🥳🎉 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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🖋️ “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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