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In this lovely short book, Foschini chronicles the diligent (and obsessive) commitment of Jacques Guérin to rescue as many of Marcel Proust's belongings as he could from the ravages of time and the destructive maelstrom of Proust's sister-in-law, who sought to obliterate any reminders of her brother-in-law out of a concern for bourgeois respectability and frustration over an unhappy marriage to Proust's brother Robert. Foschini constructs a multi-layered work: introducing Guérin's efforts to use
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A charming account of a vociferous collector of Proust memorabilia, the perfumer Jacques Guerin and a light-hearted exploration of Proust's early love life and familial relations. As commendable as a heartfelt passion for collecting anything might be, whether it be Proust memorabilia or Star Wars figurines, one should be wary of fetishizing Proust's surroundings/objects thinking that they will give us an insight into his remarkable genius and unparalleled imagination. I'm not sure if Proust hims
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Fascinating reading on a true Proust fan/fanatic's quest to salvage Proust's papers, artifacts for posterity working both against Proust's family and in league with them. We have a great deal to be grateful for in that much would have been lost relative to the writer had this not become such an obssession for our perfume magnate.
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