How, a century after his death, to take a new look at Proust?
This is the challenge taken up by this original work which, through the prism of foreign readers of La
Recherche
, offers us a whole range of considerations and reflections on his work.
There are thus summoned, from the 1920s until today, novelists, poets, diarists, philosophers, essayists or translators.
Looks from all corners of Europe, but also from the Americas, Africa and Asia.
Divided into ten chapters, presenting more than 80 texts (including extracts from novels) and the subject of a rich introduction, this
Proust-Monde
thus sweeps across a wide international and temporal spectrum, ranging from Rainer Maria Rilke to Milan Kundera, via Joseph Conrad, Nabokov, Chalamov, Mishima, Virginia Woolf.
Without forgetting its few detractors or skeptical readers, such as Gombrowicz or Borges, who refer us to the famous word of Paul Valéry, about
Research
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