Marcel Proust and Paris, one hundred years after the death of the French writer
Audio 29:00
Poster of the exhibition “Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel”.
© Carnavalet Museum
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
2 mins
As part of the commemorations of the centenary of the disappearance of Marcel Proust, who died on November 18, 1922, a major exhibition at the Carnavalet Museum proposes to rediscover the author of the monumental book "In Search of Lost Time" with regard to the places where he lived the writer, but also where part of his work takes place.
An exceptional guided tour in the company of specialist Jean-Yves Tadié, expert and member of the exhibition's Scientific Committee and its curator Anne-Laure Sol.
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"The Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marcel Proust (1871-1922).
Devoted to Marcel Proust's relationship with Paris, where most of his life took place, the exhibition Marcel Proust, a Parisian novel questions for the first time the place of the city in the Proustian novel.
The first part of the exhibition explores the Parisian universe of Marcel Proust. Born and died in Paris, the life of the writer took place in the heart of a very restricted space, a quadrilateral going from the Parc Monceau to the place de la Concorde, from the Concorde to Auteuil, from Auteuil to the Bois de Boulogne and the Etoile.
The second part of the exhibition opens on the fictional Paris created by Marcel Proust. By following the architecture of the novel In Search of Lost Time and through emblematic Parisian places, it offers a journey through the work and the history of the city, focusing on the main protagonists of the novel. The city of Paris, poetized by fiction, is the setting for the quest of the narrator, double of the author, until the final revelation of his vocation as a writer.
About 280 works (paintings, sculptures, graphic works, photographs, architectural models, accessories and clothing), manuscripts and archival documents, from public and private collections, French and foreign, will evoke the Parisian universe of Marcel Proust, oscillating between reality and reinvention. Many excerpts from archive films, film adaptations and sound recordings of In Search of Lost Time will offer visitors a sensory introduction to the novel and the Proustian world."
(Presentation of
the Carnavalet Museum
).
Bibliography cited in the show:
Proust and society © Gallimard
The big world of Proust © Grasset
Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret, audio version © Frémeaux et Associés
Also to be read:
"
Proust in love",
by Patrick Mimouni, published by Grasset.
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