Jürgen RitteYear of Publication: 2022 Marcel Proust at Lake Geneva
In the September and October of 1899, Marcel Proust spends six weeks in Évian on Lake Geneva where he immerses himself in an intense social life: visits to the magnificent villas owned by international aristocrats that surround the lake, numerous excursions, amusements and extensive debates. Proust jots down impressions, sketches, aperçus, of which he doesn’t yet fathom that...