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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 ❤️🩹❤️💔❤️🩹❤️💔… as shown in the previously unpublished volume...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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Have you heard of “Proust, the podcast”?
🤓📚🎧 For one year, @franceculture is running a long-running podcast dedicated to the work of Marcel Proust: all of France Culture’s programmes are being drawn upon to...
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“For a long time, I went to bed early.
” Then I started ‘Proust-procrastinating’ on Proustagram. @labnf @editions_gallimard @editionsfolio @editionsgrasset @editions_bouquins
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