Zombie Proust
Jérôme Prieur author Nancy Kline translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Les Fugitives
Published:10th Jul '25
Should be back in stock very soon
PRIX CÉLESTE 2001
"Marcel Proust passed away on the 18th of November. It was 1922. One day, I could no longer resist: I went in search of him.
“I prowled about, I visited the rooms where he had lived, I caught glimpses of abandoned châteaus and haunted places, I walked in his footsteps. I wanted to see what his eyes had seen. I looked at his photographs, I uncovered relics and little treasures. I tried to find out who he had been in life, what he had really been like. I interrogated those among the dead who could still reply: his friends, his confidants, those who had crossed paths with him.
“Who was he? The dandy who set out for salons as though on a foreign expedition? Or the invisible man who flinched from the light, the character in a thriller? The brilliant writer was concealing a doppelgänger, and I pursued him as though tracking down a missing relative.” — Jérôme Prieur
'Through meticulous research and poetic insight, Prieur delicately gathers fragments from Proust’s life and work, weaving them into a hauntingly vivid portrait of the man behind the masterpiece. Zombie Proust goes beyond biography; it’s a resurrection. With care and reverence, Prieur offers us new eyes through which to see the writer, revealing a Marcel Proust who is as deeply human as he is a literary icon.' —Ryan McMenamin
‘Prieur has succeeded magnificently in bringing his portrait of Proust to life’ —Le Monde
'Every page is shot through with the feeling of overwhelming, enthusiastic, affectionate gratitude that readers of In Search of Lost Time feel for Proust the writer and Proust the man.' —Le Matricule des anges
'Scarcely any other book on Proust evades with such effortless skill the classic dilemma of whether to relate everything to the work or to the man. Prieur resurrects them both as a single phantom, in the night time favoured by Proust, perfectly conjuring up scents and tastes, with a love which owes nothing to neurosis.' —Journal du Dimanche
- Winner of Prix Céleste 2001
ISBN: 9781068300127
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Weight: unknown
160 pages