Société des Amis de Marcel Proust
23 January 2026
NEWSLETTER OF 23 JANUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Group visit to the Whistler exhibition, Tate Britain, Friday 29 May As announced in the previous letter, a group visit to the Whistler exhibition, presented by the London museum as " the first major European exhibition of Whistler's work in 30 years ", is being offered to members on Friday 29 M
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NEWSLETTER OF 18 JANUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Proustian news In the Proustian news at the start of this year, let us note: - the publication, by Classiques Garnier, of Travaux Proustiens Choisis (1936-1989), by Philip Kolb - the online publication, freely accessible, of the French version of two articles published in The Irish Proust , a book
Read more →1 January 2026
At a public sale held in Louviers on 15 November, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust was able to acquire a "Coucher de soleil sur la mer", painted by Thomas Alexander Harrison (1853-1930). Proust had met this American painter during his stay in Beg-Meil in 1895, and h...
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NEWSLETTER OF 1 JANUARY 2026 Ladies and Gentlemen, dear members, I. Evening presentation of the book "The Irish Proust" - 15 January, 6.30pm Niall Burgess, Ambassador of Ireland to France, has kindly informed us that members of our association are invited to a presentation of the recent book " The Irish Proust " (Bloomsbury), which deals with the influence of
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Announcement of the winners of the 2025 pastiche competition10 July 2025 The winners of the 7th edition of our pastiche competition are as follows: Category "over twenty-five"1st Prize: Mme Claire Leibovich for her pastiche La Bible de Sens ;Members' Prize: M. Philippe Morel...
Read more →22 June 2025
Entries to the 2025 edition of the Proustian pastiche competition are now closed, and the jury's dossier is available by clicking on this link. Members up to date with their 2025 subscription are invited to take part in the election of the "Members' Prize" in each of the tw...
Read more →8 May 2025
La Maison de Tante Léonie - Musée Marcel Proust in the regional final of the "Monument préféré des Français" competition (FranceTv) ! In 1919, Marcel Proust was not, a priori, the favourite to win the Prix Goncourt against Roland Dorgelès and his harrowing account of the Great War...
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Announcement of the winners of the 2024-2025 reading competition23 March 2025 The winners of the 3rd edition of our reading competition are as follows: Category "over twenty-five"1st Prize & Members' Prize: Mme Anne-Catherine Favier for her reading no. 5 of Sodome et Gomorrhe ;2n...
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In order to celebrate Marcel Proust's fondness for literary pastiche, the Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is organising a Proustian pastiche competition. The writer often indulged in this game*, notably in 1908-1909, in a series of articles about the same news story, L'Affaire Lemoine. These pa...
Read more →16 March 2025
The Société des Amis de Marcel Proust is launching a fundraising campaign for the restoration of the grave of Alfred Agostinelli, a key figure in the life and work of Marcel Proust. https://souscription.amisdeproust.fr/fr/ Alfred Agostinelli, born in Monaco on 11 October 1888, is well known...
Read more →The Société des amis de Marcel Proust et des amis de Combray is organising a third edition of the reading-aloud competition devoted to the work of Marcel Proust in 2024. The competition is open in two categories: — a category for participants under twenty-five; — a category for participants ov...
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The results of the 6th edition of our Proustian pastiche competition are as follows: General category: - First Prize: Arnaud Marchand for "Le Quai des Grands-Augustins" ; - Second Prize: Jonathan Teyssandier for "La Vieillesse de Saint-Loup" ; - - Highly commended by the jury...
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