I devoured “Proust et Cabourg”, Jean-Paul Henriet’s beautiful book published by Gallimard in 2020.
Translated from French.
I devoured “Proust et Cabourg”, Jean-Paul Henriet’s beautiful book published by Gallimard in 2020. 💜
It is a beautiful volume of around 210 pages, brimming with valuable documents, reproduced and laid out to perfection: photographs, postcards, and plans of Cabourg, the Grand Hôtel and the Casino, which were rebuilt between 1907 and 1909. Advertising materials, letters to and from Proust, etc. 📚🕰️
Jean-Paul Henriet is a passionate enthusiast, certainly an obsessive collector (we need people like that), and a connoisseur of the “Belle Époque” in Normandy. ⛱️
Just as Proust had begun writing “Jean Santeuil” at Beg-Meil, he conceived the Balbec of “The Search for Lost Time” in Cabourg and probably wrote hundreds of pages during his repeated stays at the Grand Hôtel, from the summer of 1907 (the hotel opened on 7 July 1907) to the first weeks of the war in September 1914. 🖋️🗃️
More broadly speaking, J.-P. Henriet demonstrates, explains and documents everything Proust owes to Normandy, from his first family holidays there in the 1880s right up to the completion of his great novel. 🛌
A fascinating book. 🤓
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