Book review: How life changed Proust Marcel Proust: a life by William C Carter Yale University Press, pounds 22.50, 1024pp; Marcel Proust: a biography By Jean-Yves Tadie, trans. Euan Cameron Viking, pounds 30, 986pp

The Independent - London | July 1, 2000| | Copyright

Proust was still a social animal when one wit of the Belle Epoque coined the verb "proustifier": to flatter excessively, or pay undue homage. Colette described her revulsion on first meeting the young would-be author, on account of his "overweaning politeness".

The recent deluge of books on the author of la Recherche du Temps Perdu - most prominent, Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life - might lead the cynic to declare our own age guilty of "proustification". The chief recipient of the unseemly generosity now, however, is the source of the coinage himself. These two substantial ...

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