In “My Life with Marcel Proust” 📚, published in 2025, @ccusset raves 💗 about Proust’s work and quotes…

In “My Life with Marcel Proust” 📚, published in 2025, @ccusset expresses her enthusiasm 💗 for Proust’s work and, by way of contrast, quotes Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s infamous remarks about Proust’s style:

🖋️ “Ah, Proust – if he hadn’t been Jewish, nobody would be talking about him any more! And what a wanker! And obsessed with wankery. He doesn’t write in French but in a convoluted Franco-Yiddish that’s completely outside any French tradition — you’d have to go back to the Merovingians to find such repulsive gibberish… Proust, the Homer of the perverts… 300 pages just to make us realise that Tutur f*cks Tatave is a bit much.”

Now that’s some brilliant advertising 😵‍💫 for Céline’s books! Between her lack of literary discernment and her pronounced taste for ad hominem insults...

His supporters will no doubt argue that one must not confuse the author of “Journey to the End of the Night” 🌌 with the man who railed against Proust. To this, one might reply that distinguishing the man from the author is precisely what Proust called for in his “Against Sainte-Beuve”. The difference being that Proust did not need to attack Sainte-Beuve personally in order to speak out “against” him.

🫶🏻 Please note: following some far too vitriolic comments, I’ve decided to disable them. Quoting Céline on @proustagram was clearly pushing the algorithm’s Godwin’s Law to the limit. 🫶🏻

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