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Marcel Proust, the person and his family – The Facts
A Glimpse into Marcel Proust’s Childhood The exceptional biographies by Jean-Yves Tadié3, William C. Carter4, and Roger Duchêne5 provide a combined 3,500 pages of information that help us view the life and person of Marcel Proust through the lens of facts. Little Marcel was a mama’s boy with a loving relationship with his younger brother…
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Marcel Proust, the person and his family – A Critique
Freud’s Psychoanalytic Interpretations: A Critique Sigmund Freud’s essay on Leonardo da Vinci opened the floodgates for a deluge of psychoanalytically tinged commentaries on art and artists. Freud attempted to penetrate the artist’s soul through their artifacts, their works. Once there, the psychoanalyst turns around and, based on their own theoretical considerations, creates the psychological makeup…
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Marcel Proust, the person and his family – The context
By adhering strictly to the facts and avoiding excessive interpretation when examining biographies, testimonies, and extensive correspondence, we get a clearer understanding of the dynamics within the Proust family. Our analysis reveals a typical family of their era and social context. We encounter a creative, erudite, intelligent, and above all resilient, driven individual who, despite…
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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…
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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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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,…