What is the value of friendship in Proust’s work?

23 October 2022 128 likes View on Instagram

Translated from French.

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 misunderstanding. 🥺❤️‍🩹

Eh!? But… What do you mean!? 😨🤯

The explanation is above, in the story ‘Friendship’! 🙌🏻✨ Short version and long version. 🤓

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@marycupcake123423 October 2022 · 1

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@nathan.qingyang.xu23 October 2022 · 1

IMHO there is different friendship than Proust's interpretion, like the one between Andrei and Pierre in War and Peace. Proust's understanding of friendship is characteristic of French culture to some extent

@pierre_at_maxims24 October 2022 · 1

Gardens of the Splendide Hotel, Evian

@pierre_at_maxims25 October 2022 · 1

Thank you. Indeed. It’s Jean Michel Henry’s book. Very good. The more insights there are, the better!

@weekendpoetry_mld9 October 2024 · 1

❝You are a wonderful person, but we must face the fact that you are not a true friend.❞

— Marcel Proust to Jean Cocteau

What is the value of friendship in Proust’s work?

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