Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
The reading by Xavier Gallais of extracts from the Recherche concerning gastronomy will take place at the théâtre de l'oeuvre (Paris IXe), on Monday 24 February 2020 at 8pm. The show, originally scheduled for December 2019, had to be postponed owing to the social unrest. All the inform...
Read more →11 February 2020
Several winners of the 2019 Proustian pastiche competition agreed to answer a few questions about the experience. As a reminder, the 2020 edition is open until 31 March. And the texts of all the finalists are available here or there. Why did you take part...
Read more →8 February 2020
The Association des Amis de Marcel Proust is pleased to announce the publication of Bulletin Marcel Proust n°69, whose contents are detailed below. Please note that the Bulletin is available for purchase in the association's shop. CONTENTS OF BULLETIN 69 (December 2019) Word from the presi...
Read more →3 February 2020
On the recommendation of Jean-Yves Tadié, vice-president of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust, the association has just acquired, from a bookseller on the rue de l'Odéon in Paris, an unpublished letter in which Marcel Proust, in 1919, asks Albert Nahmias to intervene with Robert Morane, a pio...
Read more →Public premiere of Reynaldo Hahn's Trio en fa majeur for violin, cello and piano. The concert by the Frivolités parisiennes, "Une soirée au salon de Madeleine Lemaire", will take place on Thursday 23 January at 7pm at the Mairie du XIe arrondissement in Paris. It is organised with the...
Read more →18 January 2020
For the "Nuit de la lecture" organised by the Ministère de la Culture, several Proustian events are planned throughout France: https://nuitdelalecture.culture.gouv.fr/Programme#/search?query=proust@47.187188508519796,3.0854194060820817,6.029676085572353
Read more →On Monday 9 March at 4pm, at the invitation of Antoine Compagnon, Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa, translator of Proust into Japanese, will give a lecture entitled: "How to translate À la recherche du temps perdu?" More information on this website.
Read more →On Monday 2 March at 3pm, at the University of Strasbourg, Luc Fraisse will give a lecture entitled "Can unpublished works by Proust still be found?". More information on this website.
Read more →On 6 February 2020, at 7.30pm, at the Hôtel Littéraire Le Swann (Paris VIIIe), to mark the centenary of the Prix Goncourt awarded to Marcel Proust for his book « À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs », the second volume of the novel cycle « À la recherche du temps perdu », La Soci...
Read more →4 January 2020
Interviewed by Nicolas Ragonneau for the Proustonomics website, Jérôme Bastianelli, President of the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust et des Amis de Combray, presents the association's achievements and prospects in this interview published on 4 January 2020. Available by clicking on this link.
Read more →Monday 20 January at 8pm, at Divonne-les-Bains (esplanade du lac), Claude Wittezaele will give a lecture entitled "Avec Marcel Proust, un itinéraire artistique". More information on this site.
Read more →Sunday 19 January at 3.30pm, Jean-Yves Tadié will present his book "Marcel Proust, croquis d’une épopée" (éditions Gallimard), at the Maison de Balzac (Paris XVIe). Free admission. More information on this site.
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