The World of Marcel Proust

Some of the locations that inspired Marcel Proust for the Recherche. A trip through old postcards. Raidue, 1987. By Elsa Milani and Mario Gerosa.

Marcel Proust, according to Evelyn Waugh (1948)

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Marcel Proust: Maestro Nonpareil of Full-Body Listening

from: in pursuit of silence

Remembrance of Things Past is, of course, a virtuoso performance in sensory attentiveness throughout; but there are certain thought experiments Proust conducts, building on particular instances of perceptual intensity, that are so remarkable, it's worth revisting them even out of their proper, inexhaustibly lush context. ...

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