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Marcel Proust’s 100th anniversary, in the monthly magazine “Europe”!
💜✨ In the combined issues of August–September 1970 (496–497) and February–March 1971 (502–503), “Europe” celebrated in advance the centenary of the birth of Marcel...
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But who exactly is this Albertine Simonet (with just one ‘n’), who shares with Swann the immense honour…
But who exactly is this Albertine Simonet (with just one “n”), who shares with Swann the immense honour of being an eponymous character in “In Search of Lost Time”?...
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Parisian geography: the exhausting Sunday saga!
Parisian geography: Sunday’s exhausting tale! 🥱😮💨 The @museecarnavalet, the City of Paris History Museum, was well placed a year ago to organise a wonderful...
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Keep an eye on the clock 🕰️, take a good look at yourself 🫣…
and get to work! 📝📓🖋️📖📚 Here are some great resolutions for 2023, which is just getting underway on @proustagram! 🙌🏻✨ That’s the theme of our New Year’s Day stories...
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“The End of Jealousy”, a short story from 1896
🤓📚✨ “The End of Jealousy” had already struck me as the finest short story in the collection “Pleasures and Days”, published in 1896 by @calmann.levy, if my notes in...
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Mademoiselle de Saint-Loup
✨ Mademoiselle de Saint-Loup ✨ Who is she? When and how is she introduced in the novel? What does she symbolise in the narrator’s eyes? 🤓📚 This Sunday’s story is in...
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Proust gift ideas!
✨ Proust gift ideas! ✨ What are you going to put under the Christmas tree at @ritzparis (or your own) this year? 🎄🎁📚 Which Proustian ‘must-have’ are you going to...
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“André Devambez: the dizzying heights of the imagination”
🖼️✨ A superb exhibition organised by @petitpalais_musee from 9 September 2022 to 5 February 2023 (extended). 🤓 Devambez was born four years before Proust. A...
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Four titles published by @editions1018 in the 1990s
4 titles published by @editions1018 in the 1990s ✨🙌🏻✨ — “Reading Days”, which contains a large number of articles, literary studies and reading notes; — “Écrits...
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3 Proust exhibitions: the 2022 exhibition catalogues
📚✨🤓 — “Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel” @museecarnavalet from 16 December 2021 to 10 April 2022. — “Marcel Proust: On his mother’s side” at @mahjparis from 14 April...
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Paris, Pompeii, Sodom.
☄️🔥 How did the war find its way into “In Search of Lost Time”? 🤔📚 That’s what we’re taking a closer look at in Sunday’s story, which you can find above! ☝🏻🤓...
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Intelligence
🤓✨ “Every day, I place less value on intelligence.” — Marcel Proust, “Against Sainte-Beuve” 🤷🏻♂️ For Proust, a work of the intellect is inevitably limited, because...
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Some of my recent acquisitions: books by and about Proust.
Some of my recent purchases: books by and about Proust. 🤓📚❤️🩹 That’s not all! 🫣 In order: 1. Marcel Proust and Gaston Gallimard, “Correspondence”, Blanche series,...
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To put an end to this rather morbid centenary of Marcel Proust’s death…
🪦💀😵💫 “At Marcel Proust’s Grave”, an article by François Mauriac, published in “La Revue hebdomadaire” on 2 December 1922 (selected extracts). 🛌🗞️👨🏻🙌🏻✨ It’s this...
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“Marcel Proust: The Making of the Work” at @labnf!
🤓📚✨ I was lucky enough to visit the third and final major exhibition of the centenary, following “Marcel Proust: A Parisian Novel” 🥐☕️ at the @museecarnavalet and...
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100 years.
🥺 To mark the centenary of Marcel Proust’s death, check out the “100 Years” story in the featured stories 🗞️📺✨ above! ☝🏻 @lefigarofr @amisdeproust @labnf...
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An autumn walk in Illiers-Combray.
🤓🍁📚✨ A very first visit to the places that inspired the opening pages of “In Search of Lost Time” 📚✨: Combray and Tansonville, the Pré-Catelan 🍂, the Vivonne, Combray...
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Let’s talk a little about Daniel Kay’s “Petits Pans de Proust”, which was published yesterday by Éditions des Instants.
Let’s talk a bit about Daniel Kay’s “Petits Pans de Proust”, which was published yesterday by Éditions des Instants. 📚🤓✨ Les Éditions des Instants kindly sent me a...
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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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