Charles Dantzig has repeatedly mentioned his taste for Proust.
Notably in 1996 in
Le Grand Livre de Proust
(Les Belles Lettres) and in 2005 in his
Selfish Dictionary of French Literature
(Grasset).
Today, he offers us his lights, his abyssal culture in
Proust Océan
.
This trip to the heart of a universe he knows perfectly could leave the reader at the door: too much knowledge, brio, formulas, provocations.
On the contrary, it is an amazing adventure to live.
Danzig is a high-flying portrait painter.
Its 100 pages on the characters of the
Search
,
"a few big fish and some fry",
are worth the detour.
"Oriane knows that her husband is cheating on her and doesn't care", "Basin de Guermantes is an idiot", "With
In Search of Lost Time,
we enter a country with a mustache".
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Letter from Alexandre Dumas to Marcel Proust about the Pantheon
, the unpublished short story by Charles Dantzig
Danzig has the meaning of the formula:
“Proust does not illustrate any cause, he observes fish.
A creative writer wants to be nothing.
Neither Jewish, nor gay, nor Catholic, nor heterosexual, he…
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