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Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel.
Exhibition catalog, Carnavalet Museum, Paris, 2021.

Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel.

PARIS-MUSEUM
€39,90 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25189
Format 21 x 30 cm
Détails 256 p., publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat NINE
ISBN 9782759605125
This book explores the special relationship that Marcel Proust had with Paris. Chronological and biographical, it first evokes his various Parisian homes, Parisian life and the urban setting in which he evolved, highlighting the evolution of his tastes, the abundance of his social and cultural life and the affirmation of his personality. Materializing the passage from reality to fiction, Marcel Proust's "room", an emblematic space of the Carnavalet Museum, is then revealed as a place of introspection and meditation, a true laboratory of the writer's work. The last, important part, deals with the presence of Paris in In Search of Lost Time by analyzing the main Parisian places described by the narrator-voyeur (the writer's double) and sublimated by literature, while trying to make perceptible the circular dimension of the novel (the same place appears over a period of 40 years) and to articulate the images of the city with the corresponding literary extracts. A richly illustrated work that invites the reader to travel both through the work and the history of the city and poses the question of the persistence of the memory of the writer and his work in the collective imagination and in the urban space.
This book explores the special relationship that Marcel Proust had with Paris. Chronological and biographical, it first evokes his various Parisian homes, Parisian life and the urban setting in which he evolved, highlighting the evolution of his tastes, the abundance of his social and cultural life and the affirmation of his personality. Materializing the passage from reality to fiction, Marcel Proust's "room", an emblematic space of the Carnavalet Museum, is then revealed as a place of introspection and meditation, a true laboratory of the writer's work. The last, important part, deals with the presence of Paris in In Search of Lost Time by analyzing the main Parisian places described by the narrator-voyeur (the writer's double) and sublimated by literature, while trying to make perceptible the circular dimension of the novel (the same place appears over a period of 40 years) and to articulate the images of the city with the corresponding literary extracts. A richly illustrated work that invites the reader to travel both through the work and the history of the city and poses the question of the persistence of the memory of the writer and his work in the collective imagination and in the urban space.