A Website Celebrating the Life and Works of Marcel Proust
proust online — A self-paced course
Join renowned Proust biographer William C. Carter as he guides you through In Search of Lost Time. Read the novel and enjoy the lectures on your own schedule. 30 multimedia lectures with reading assignments, supplementary files, and live webcams. Subscribers have a lifetime membership with unlimited access to the lectures.
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We will read in its entirety Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, which offers a vast panorama of French culture and society from 1870-1922. We will enjoy seeing what Proust has to say about painting, music, society, bad habits, nerves, cruelty, fashion, war, sex, jealousy, dreams, and, most of all, about art, memory, love, and time.
The Proust Boutique
We are launching a boutique with unique products of our own designs: Proust t-shirts, Proust totes, Proust mugs, and photographs of places that Proust loved and that inspired many passages in his novel and other writings. Nic’s photographs include Illiers-Combray, the Jardin Marcel Proust, and Illiers environs; Paris, Cabourg (the Balbec of Marcel Proust), and Venice.
The ‘Printemps Proustien’ Festival May 2019
À l’initiative du Conseil départemental d’Eure-et-Loir, le Printemps Proustien célèbre le centenaire du Prix Goncourt décerné à Marcel Proust pour À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs. Sous le haut patronage du Président de la République et de l’Académie Goncourt, le Printemps Proustien réunit un plateau d’exception.
L’occasion de se plonger dans l’univers et l’époque de Marcel Proust et d’accueillir tous les publics pour 10 jours de festivités culturelles et populaires.
L’Eure-et-Loir, terre d’enfance de l’auteur de la Recherche, accueille les festivités liées au centenaire du Prix Goncourt décerné à Marcel Proust.
À travers un festival pluridisciplinaire réunissant un plateau exceptionnel, tout le département le Goncourt et la Belle Époque.
Photographing Literary Landscapes: Marcel Proust's France
The scenes depicted by Proust in the novel captivate his readers so much that many travel to visit the places that inspired him. I admire a writer’s ability to see a real object or place and make it visible to others through words. By using photography, I can return to the location that inspired the writer and capture the same landscapes as they continue to exist in time. The resulting juxtaposition of reality and art is a phenomenon that I find endlessly fascinating. Photographs by Nicolas Drogoul.