Proust and the Pet Goat
Michael Wood: The Proustian Grail, 7 October 2021
Les Soixante-Quinze Feuillets: Et autres manuscrits inédits
by Marcel Proust, edited by Nathalie Mauriac Dyer.
Gallimard, 384 pp., €21, April 2021,978 2 07 293171 0 Show More
by Marcel Proust, edited by Nathalie Mauriac Dyer.
Gallimard, 384 pp., €21, April 2021,
“... and a complete scorn for other people – and they are a ‘bande à part’, as both Proust and Jean-Luc Godard call such a gang. But the girls’ role in the novel is not now to trigger a scene in which the narrator plays a socialite clown. They are instead a sort of magical species whose very existence fascinates him, so that, however much time he ... ”