Jacques Falce

Jacques Falce describes himself with too much modesty as a retried engineer, member of the Cercle littéraire proustien de Cabourg-Balbec, residing in Saint Chamond-Loire, France. We are glad that he continues to send us his india-ink drawings.

The first of the drawings below depicts Proust sitting in a corner of the dining room of the Grand-Hôtel at Cabourg, enjoying tea and madeleines while reading his favorite newspaper, Le Figaro, and oblivious to a girl cyclist passing by on what today is known as the Promenade Marcel Proust. In the second drawing, Proust, leaning over the balustrade, seems to be engaging in conversation with a fashionable woman. We are certain that readers of Proust will be able to identify the inspiration for Falce's other charming drawings.

Les Dessins de Marcel Proust

 

“What compels my admiration for M. Proust’s work is that it is great art based on analysis. . . . I don’t think there is in [all] creative literature an example of power of analysis such as this.”
— Joseph Conrad
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