MARCEL PROUST'S SEARCH FOR LOST TIME

  A quick overview of Who's Who In Proust and Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time.

   Patrick Alexander.

   How to purchase your own copy of Who's Who in Proust.

  A selection of excerpts from the book, as follows:

  Genealogy of the Guermantes.

Click here for chart of the Guermantes family tree

  Marcel's old school friend.

  One of the objects of Marcel's lust.

  The circle of characters around Mlle St.-Loup

  Map of Paris during the Belle Époque

  Historic background to the 'Affaire'.

   The long creation of 'In Search of Lost Time'

   A study of Proust's obsession with men's headwear.

  Background to Marcel Proust and his great novel

   A description of how Proust wrote and published In Search of Lost Time

   A quick synopsis of "In Search of Lost Time"

'The Summarize Proust Competition’   A link to the famous Monty Python sketch.

   A selection of links to other Proustian websites.

  The infamous Proust Questionnaire as used by Vanity Fair.

  Many of Proust's characters were partly based on real life people.

                 Photographs of some of the models for Proust's characters.

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