A conversation about Louis de Robert's Roman du malade, Thursday 17 September

As part of the Rencontres des Amis de Marcel Proust, the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann and the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust welcome Olivier Philipponnat, editor of the new edition of Louis de Robert's Roman du malade, to discuss this text and its unusual history.

Published in 1911 and awarded the Prix Femina that same year, Le Roman du malade tells the story of a young writer overtaken by illness, sent to Switzerland for treatment before experiencing one last love on the Basque coast. Marcel Proust admired the book, and its author, Louis de Robert, played a decisive part in the birth of the Recherche: it was to him that Proust turned for advice before the publication of Du côté de chez Swann, and he was the first to read its proofs.

The novel is reissued on 17 September 2026 by Archipoche, in an edition with a preface by Jérôme Bastianelli, President of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust.

Thursday 17 September at 7pm
Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann, 11 rue de Constantinople, Paris VIII^e

Free admission.

Meeting co-organised with the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann.