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1. Is Proust a unworldly Neurotic?
1-Proustaverses: Proust is an oversensitive and over-intelligent man who seems to be a world-alienated recluse trapped in a self-made prison from which he spies on a fading social class and then writes an unreadable book about it. He needs literary tricks (the Petite Madeleine, the uneven paving stones, the starched napkin, etc.) to invent a…
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Myths and Facts
Proust-averse critics (as of now ornamented with a neologism ‘Proustaverses’) often spread negative myths about Marcel Proust and his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time (ISOLT). Let’s examine some of the most common myths and contrast them with the facts presented by their counterparts, the Proustophiles, as can be distilled from the extensive secondary literature. …
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WELCOME
WHY There is an ocean of secondary publications available on the work of Marcel Proust (1871-1922), especially his A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. So why add this website to them? Simply, because over the past decades, many issues were overexposed while otherwise aspects were kept under the cornucopia of prudishness. We want to bring…