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Photograph of detail on a public interpretation panel. Photo: C. Mansfield 30.6.2014.
A Novel from Travel Journaling
Marcel Proust was born just weeks after the Paris Commune in the summer of 1871. His life reaches into the twentieth century and through the First World War. Born into one of the successful bourgeois families that emerged from the revolutions in France, his documented life and his own novels present readers with a leisured social class in which a young man could choose to become a writer. His narrating character in his major novel, À la Recherche du temps perdu (published over the period 1913-1927), is called the young Marcel, and with Proust's declared intent to scientifically investigate personal memory, the volumes of À la Recherche hover between fiction and
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Alexia Monrouzeau 3 years ago
22/10/2022, 8:17:
Though I can't stand reading Proust (I tried this summer again, no way for the moment), I've been through your article, and that's my little miracle, not that bad for a morning...thank you.
Charles Mansfield 3 years ago
Thank you for reading through to the end, Alexia - Charlie