Jürgen Ritte

Jürgen Ritte

Jürgen Ritte, born in Cologne in 1956, is professor of Literary Studies and Intercultural Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, co-founder and vice-president of the Marcel Proust Society and author of numerous publications. In 2016, he edited a two-volume selection of Marcel Proust’s Letters 1879-1922.
Jürgen Ritte, born in Cologne in 1956, is professor of Literary Studies and Intercultural Studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, co-founder and vice-president of the Marcel Proust Society and author of numerous publications. In 2016, he edited a two-volume selection of Marcel Proust’s Letters 1879-1922.

PUBLICATIONS

Marcel Proust at Lake Geneva
Year of Publication: 2022
Jürgen RitteYear of Publication: 2022
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...