If you haven’t yet come across Eric Karpeles’s “Marcel Proust’s Imaginary Museum” @thamesandhudson…
Translated from French.
If you haven’t yet come across Eric Karpeles’s “Le Musée imaginaire de Marcel Proust” @thamesandhudson, this is a sign! 🙌🏻✨
All the illustrations from “In Search of Lost Time” are listed and reproduced here, opposite the extract that refers to or alludes to them. 🖼️
This is an essential read for anyone who wants to ‘see’ the artistic images the narrator has in his mind: his imaginary museum. 📚
An example, taken from the first part of “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”: the narrator is involved in a one-sided romance with Gilberte Swann 👩🏻🦰. He will soon give up on her, make his first visit to Balbec and meet Albertine. 👩🏻
🖋️ “At such times, Gilberte’s braids would brush against my cheek. To me, the delicacy of their weave seemed both natural and supernatural, and the power of their artful curls made them a unique work of art, as though the very grass of Paradise had been used to create them. For even the tiniest section of them, what heavenly herbarium would I not have given as a shrine? But, having no hope of obtaining a genuine piece of these mats, if only I could have possessed a photograph of them—how much more precious than that of the little flowers drawn by da Vinci!”
Odette reminded Swann of Jethro’s daughters as painted by Botticelli. Here we see that their daughter, Gilberte, reminds the narrator of Leonardo’s floral drawings. 🖌️🖍️
🗳️ Can you recall any pictorial references in the Search?
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But also… Charity!!!