Antoine Compagnon is one of the leading experts on Proust and his work, but that is not all…

Antoine Compagnon is one of the most eminent specialists on Proust and his work, but that is not all: a professor emeritus @collegedefrance 🏛️ and a member of the Académie Française, he is also a connoisseur and commentator on the works 🎙️🖋️ of Baudelaire’s work and Montaigne’s “Essays”, as well as a close associate of Roland Barthes.

Several volumes of the Search 📚 have been published under his editorship by @editionsfolio and in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade series.

To mark the centenary of Proust’s death in 2022, he worked on the exhibitions 🖼️ “La Fabrique de l’œuvre” @labnf and, in particular, “Proust du côté de la mère” @mahjparis. Through his mother, née Jeanne Weil, Proust was Jewish, even though he was brought up in the Catholic tradition of his father’s family and the small community of @mairiedillierscombray 🏡.

“(These pages) were written during the lockdown 😷 in the spring of 2020. With nothing else to do, I set about reviving and bringing to a at any rate to its conclusion, a research project begun quite a number of years earlier on how Proust’s work was read within the French Jewish community during the 1920s, particularly amongst young Zionists.”

(…) Along the way, this 📺 series was given new life by several twists and turns, thanks to documents 📄 that were shared with me and memories that resurfaced. The blog format allows research to become a collective endeavour. Readers looked forward to its regular instalments, responded, 📲 sent comments, agreed with or challenged the approach, enriched the discussion, and transformed what had been a solitary investigation into a close collaboration.
“This book is dedicated to them.”

Have you read it?

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