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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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In “The Guermantes Way”, the young narrator visits his friend Robert de Saint-Loup 🤵🏼♂️, who is…
doing his military service in Doncières 🐎. As fatigue set in, one morning upon waking he found himself experiencing familiar sensations linked to other mornings, from...
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Having re-read Revel’s book “Sur Proust”, I came across this passage, which strikes me as very apt, concerning…
the love between the narrator and Albertine: 🖋️ “The abrupt shift from the first desire to the second occurs in the famous scene of the train journey 🚂 with...
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Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) sets out a number of paradoxes 🤔.
Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) sets out some paradoxes 🤔. Speaking of Proust, for example, he assures us that in “In Search of Lost Time”, ‘time plays no part...
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In “La Naissance du jour” 🌅, Colette draws a parallel between herself at the age of 55, living at ‘La Treille Muscate…’
In “La Naissance du jour” 🌅, Colette draws a parallel between herself at the age of 55, living at ‘La Treille Muscate’ near St-Tropez, and her mother Sido following...
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Colette (1873–1954) 🤵🏻♀️ was of the same generation as Marcel Proust (1871–1922) 🤵🏻♂️.
When she moved to Paris in 1893, newly married to ‘Monsieur Willy’ 👰🏻♀️, she moved in social and artistic circles. Her Burgundian accent and her outspoken,...
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Did you know? Marcel Proust, who was well known for his passion for railway signposts 🚂🗺️, was…
💡 Did you know? Marcel Proust, who was well known for his passion for railway signposts 🚂🗺️, was far from looking down on pulp fiction. And even though he realised,...
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Proust admired Baudelaire’s work for many reasons, above all those of the heart ❤️🩹 and the mind.
As I continually rediscover them, I find that they share, above all, a talent for metaphor. Many authors use rather clichéd or overly didactic metaphors: Proust and...
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In “La Maman et la p**ain” 🎥, Jean Eustache portrays Alexandre, a young Parisian driven by a desire…
In “La Maman et la p**ain” 🎥 Jean Eustache portrays Alexandre, a young Parisian driven by a desire he mistakes for love 💗 – a serious, sententious man; a mischievous,...
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In 1989, @la_nrf published this fine volume with @editions_gallimard: the correspondence of Jean…
In 1989, @la_nrf published this beautiful volume with @editions_gallimard: the correspondence between Jean Cocteau and Anna de Noailles 📔✨. This lavishly presented...
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Bernard de Fallois was the student who, whilst working on a thesis on Proust 📚 in the early 1950s, was…
Bernard de Fallois is the student who, whilst working on a thesis on Proust 📚 in the early 1950s, was introduced to Suzy Mante-Proust, the writer’s niece, by André...
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Jean-Yves Tadié is our “key contemporary”.
🌟 He published his thesis in 1971 on “Proust and the Novel”, edited the second edition of “The Search” in the Pléiade series ✌🏻, has written several books, given...
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Competition! ✨ on @proustagram: try your luck at winning the first volume of Jean-Yves Tadié’s memoirs, “…
✨ Competition! ✨ on @proustagram: enter for a chance to win the first volume of Jean-Yves Tadié’s memoirs, “L’Autre côté du temps”, published by @editionsplon! 🎁📚🥳 It...
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In the 19th century, there were very few authors who had never been involved in a duel.
In the 19th century, few authors had never been involved in a duel. And Marcel Proust was no exception: though we might imagine him as a feverish, sickly man confined...
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During his first stay in Balbec ⛱️, the narrator meets the little group of young people…
During his first stay in Balbec ⛱️, the narrator meets the little group of young girls in bloom 🌺. Can you name them? Albertine, Andrée, Rosemonde, Gisèle… Other,...
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“In Search of Lost Time” 🕰️ is a wonderfully rich book of images, and in it Marcel Proust has collected…
“In Search of Lost Time” 🕰️ is a wonderfully rich book of imagery, in which Marcel Proust has gathered countless metaphors – some superb, some grotesque, some...
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@proustagram turned two yesterday!
As of yesterday, Proustagram is two years old! 🥳🍰 This is an opportunity for me to thank you for subscribing to this account, and for following it so faithfully! 🌟...
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I often say that “the Search” is the story of a hold 🔗⛓️ but, above all, of a ‘letting go’…
⛓️💥. In it, the narrator recounts his long (and long-uncertain) realisation regarding the vanity of the world, the recurring patterns of love, and the dead ends of...
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In “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” 🌸, the narrator recalls the time when, upon entering…
In “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” 🌸, the narrator recalls the time when, as he entered his teenage years, his appreciation for the arts became more defined...
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