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5. Was Proust an opportunist who hid his sexual preference in order to be published?
5- Proustaverses Marcel Proust is an opportunist who absolutely wants to be published and therefore – we paraphrase André Gide, head of the Nouvelle Revue Française and later Nobel laureate – hides his homosexuality behind the many heterosexual infatuations in the literary closet in a cowardly way. André Gide held this against him permanently, even
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6. Was Proust a right-wing elitist who looked down on the lower class?
6- Proustaverses Marcel is an elitist snob who is only interested in being part of the ‘haute bourgeoisie’ and, if possible, the aristocracy. As a mondaine dandy and right-wing socialite, he looks down on the working class. 6- Proustophiles Proust has a great interest in and attention to the working class. This is evidenced by
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7. Is ‘In Search of Lost Time’ a long-drawn-out asthma attack?
7- Proustaverses The entire ISOLT is a long-drawn-out asthma attack, argues Dr. George Corganian de Corganoff in his 1945 thesis6 for his doctorate in medicine. 7- Proustophiles A strange, slightly bizarre thesis by a doctor who – with the best intentions – tries to explain the style of the long sentences. In reality, an asthmatic
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8. The ISOLT is much ado about nothing
8- Proustaverses The entire ISOLT is about nothing. The hilarious Monty Python sketch about the “Proust Summaries” world championship brings this to life. The writer Proust is a windbag suffering for the disease called ‘logorrhea verbositalis’ who misuses thousands of pages to ultimately have nothing essential to say. The publisher Fasquelle, whom he approaches first,
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9. Is the ISOLT an autobiography?
9- Proustaverses The ISOLT is an autobiography and a roman à clef, as evidenced by the large amount of secondary literature in which people try to piece together details from Marcel Proust’s real life onto what happens in the ISOLT, with some authors acting as detectives to find out who each character is based on.
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Is the ISOLT an incoherent, unreadable word jumble?
10- Proustaverses The ISOLT is an impenetrable fog with no plot or storyline, it comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. The whole work is a word jumble of a bedridden sick dandy who pours out page after page more or less at random from his pen in an ode to snobbery, while impressionistically dissecting the