This book explores Marcel Proust's special relationship with Paris.
Chronological and biographical, it first evokes his various Parisian houses, Parisian life and the urban environment in which he lived,
It highlights the evolution of his tastes, the proliferation of his social and cultural life and the affirmation of his personality.
Materialising the passage from reality to fiction, Marcel Proust's ‘room’, the emblematic space of the Musée Carnavalet,
is thus a place of introspection and contemplation, a veritable laboratory for the writer's work.
The last part, which is important, deals with the presence of Paris in À la recherche du temps perdu by analysing the main Parisian places described by the narrator-voyeur (the writer's double) and sublimated by literature, trying to make the circular dimension of the novel perceptible (the same place appears over a period of 40 years) and to articulate the images of the city with the corresponding literary extracts.
A richly illustrated book that offers the reader a journey through both the work and the history of the city and raises the question of the persistence of the memory of the writer and his work in the collective imagination and in the urban space.
