Why You Shouldn't Read Proust!
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This year marks one hundred years since the French author Marcel Proust won Le Prix Goncourt for his book À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, the second part of his famous novel sequence À la recherche du temps perdu. On a more personal note, it’s also ten years since I was hard at work on my own engagement with Proust’s work – In Search of Vinteuil: Music, Literature and a Self Regained (Sussex Academic Press, 2010).
To celebrate these anniversaries, I’ll be posting a series of blog posts on Proust in the coming weeks. I begin with…
Why You Shouldn’t Read Proust!