July 1, 1907. A private room at the Ritz.
Marcel Proust receives the Paris mondain around a dinner in honor of Gaston Calmette.
For the writer, this is a way of thanking the boss of
Le Figaro,
who, since 1900, has regularly opened the columns of the famous daily news to him.
Most often in one.
Sometimes under his own name, sometimes under the pseudonym Horatio.
But it is also the occasion, for this musicographer and passionate music lover, to make resonate once again, at the end of the dinner, the music which he adores.
In the writing process of
La Recherche
, she will play a much more important role than that which the intradiegetic references of the corpus suggest.
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This music is in the image of Proust.
Sensitive.
Sometimes light, sometimes dramatic.
But still very refined.
From living room.
And above all ageless, like the characters in
La Recherche.
These
"giants plunged into the years at times, lived by them so distant, between which so many days have come.
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