Marcel Proust

Psychoanalysis was first discovered very close to the writing of Marcel Proust’s novel In search of lost time (1913–1927). While Proust never mentions psychoanalysis, one has the feeling reading his novel, that we are here dealing with an endeavour, a literary one, taking place in a parrallel universe, but of…

In Search of Lost Time is known as one of the most famous and highest values novels ever. And the longest, it consists of seven volumes. Only the first book is 431 pages. The famous quote on the madeleine cake dipped in linden flower tea is to be found on…

Even people who have not read Marcel Proust’s iconic novel In Search of Lost Time have heard about the madeleine episode. Young Marcel was a sickly child who was cosseted by his mother, grandmother and elderly aunts and great aunts. …

MWC Reentry by Aurora Frois — Welcome to this part of the series which is called “Outside the 104”. It’s also a feature page on the homepage of this publication. This is about searching out and reading other writers’ MWC essays which were not part of the 104 winners circle and promote their work. …

Proust’s Questionnaire is as old as most modern magazines, but the question begs to be asked…what are YOUR answers? Marcel Proust Character Questionnaire The below list of questions was created by the noted French author Marcel Proust who had invented this questionnaire. These questions are frequently used in interviews, and have been used in…

I’m here, feeling the wind on my face and my bare arms. It’s August in this city and a prologue is being prepared. And I’m here, seated at this coffee table in this open-air gallery, under a concrete and stone building. I saw a snail woman just after buying the first…

Halfway through the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust’s unnamed narrator muses on the inaccuracy of human judgment when it comes to, among other things, books: So it is that a well-read man will at once begin to yawn with boredom when one speaks to him…

Memories from reading ‘In Search of Lost Time’ in lockdown — I started reading Proust around Eastertime last year. England was in its first lockdown, I was no longer travelling for work, no longer going out or meeting up with friends and had more time than ever on my hands. You need a lot of time to read In Search of…

If there is a French novelist who has significantly shaped the literature of the 20th century, he is, by far, Marcel Proust. A lover of French Brittany big and small cities. — “Daddy went on a trip, it is the sea that takes care of my health, it is the sea that is so good for doing everything and healing… » July 1871. The alleys and streets still smell of blood when little Marcel was born in Paris. Shy, sensitive, He was…