Remembering Authors Past.(revival on interest in Marcel Proust)(Brief Article)

Newsweek International | February 7, 2000| | Copyright

Every day at dusk for the next month or so, the top floor of Paris's Pompidou Center will become a shrine of sorts. Some 50 French writers will read the entirety of Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" aloud in four-hour shifts as part of an exhibit on the concept of time. On one evening last month, an audience member had stretched out on the floor, eyes closed. Another bent over his own copy of "Swann's Way," reading along and smiling. And Perrine Lacroix, an artist from Lyon, felt that she'd rediscovered a keen pleasure from the past. "I haven't read Proust since I ...

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