It involved meeting an old friend of his and Proust’s, a woman they had both considered a vision of female perfection, but who was now barely identifiable.READ MORE ... the toast of Paris, the love of Proust, the belle amie of Anatole France.
This direct connection explains why smell can instantly transport us to another time or place, a phenomenon known as the Proust Effect, after the French novelist who wrote about how the scent of madeleines brought him instantly back to childhood ...A.I.
A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is raising money to buy it ... .
France's National Library launched a public appeal for donations on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of unpublished documents belonging to MarcelProust, including some showing how the famed writer settled on one of his most famous lines ... .