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I wander through Proust's world...never desiring to leave. Mentor: William C. Carter Proust-Ink: https://www.proust-ink.com Pinterest: pinterest.com/marcelitaswann/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarcelitaSwann Instagram.com/marcelitaswann1913

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Mécénat d'entreprise : État cherche 5 millions € pour un fonds Marcel Proust Fin 2024, des héritiers de Marcel Proust annonçaient la mise en vente d'archives inédites de l'auteur de La Recherche. Depuis, l'État fait des pieds et des mains afin de r&...

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5 millions € recherchés pour un fonds Marcel Proust. L’État active le mécénat d’entreprise pour réunir la somme. Enjeu : préserver et acquérir des archives liées à l’auteur. Un signal fort sur le financement privé du patrimoine littéraire. #Proust #Mécénat

02.03.2026 09:06 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Proust : un fonds inédit à la BNF La Bibliothèque nationale de France lance une souscription pour faire entrer dans ses collections un immense fonds d'archives et de manuscrits de Proust encore inexploré.

#Proust : un fonds inédit à la BNF.

La @labnf.bsky.social lance une souscription pour faire entrer dans ses collections un immense fonds d'archives et de manuscrits de Proust encore inexploré. L'occasion pour son président, Gilles Pécout, de rappeler les missions de l'institution.

03.03.2026 10:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for sharing this. We are delighted to recognise William C. McKeown’s remarkable new edition of The Stones of Venice with our 2025 Book Prize. His scholarship, intro, and editorial work bring fresh insight to one of Ruskin’s most significant works. Thrilled to see it reach new readers.

23.02.2026 17:20 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

In London...June 2026?
@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social

23.02.2026 21:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In Paris?
@labnf.bsky.social BnF exhibition!
www.cite-langue-francaise.fr/agenda/treso...

"Don't miss the exhibition 'Treasures and writing secrets. Manuscripts of the National Library of France, from the Middle Ages to the present day'."
(Image @00:21

06.02.2026 05:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In London…7 February?
Celebrate John Ruskin’s birthday!

06.02.2026 16:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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In Paris?
@labnf.bsky.social BnF exhibition!
www.cite-langue-francaise.fr/agenda/treso...

"Don't miss the exhibition 'Treasures and writing secrets. Manuscripts of the National Library of France, from the Middle Ages to the present day'."
(Image @00:21

06.02.2026 05:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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RUSKIN ART CLUB

Event! ruskinartclub.org?ss_source=ss...

04.02.2026 01:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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La Madeleine sans Proust : un mariage mondain à la Belle Époque Conférence autour du mariage d'un ami de Marcel Proust avec petit film et extraits musicaux

In Paris...5 February?
Jean-Christophe Antoine will present:
"La Madeleine sans Proust" on February 5th at 15:00.
Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner
www.paris.fr/evenements/l...

Tickets: billetterie.musee-henner.fr/detail-activ...

03.02.2026 17:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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« Ma mémoire toute remplie d’elle ». La carrière de Sarah Bernhardt dans les avant-textes de Proust et les écrits de Hahn BnF - Site institutionnel

In Paris…2 February?
Interested in Sarah Bernhardt and Proust?

“La séance nous permettra d'écouter Cécile Leblanc : « Ma mémoire toute remplie d’elle ». La carrière de #SarahBernhardt dans les avant-textes de #Proust et les écrits de Hahn, choses vues, choses jugées.”

www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/ma...

30.01.2026 16:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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In Paris…29 January?
Jean-Christophe Antoine’s presentation!

archives.paris.fr/offre-cultur...

26.01.2026 18:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Antoine Compagnon speaks at "Forum Philo Le Monde Le Mans" on 31 January. @amisdeproust.bsky.social
Program:
~https://forumlemondelemans.univ-lemans.fr/fr/index.html
~https://forumlemondelemans.univ-lemans.fr/_attachment/nouvel-article-34/BIbliographie%2037éme%20Edition.pdf

25.01.2026 16:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quelques secrets de Bernard de Fallois - Des documents inédits révèlent l'appartenance de Fallois à l'extrême droite et sa complicité intellectuelle avec le premier négationnisme.

A must re-read.
"Quelques secrets de Bernard de Fallois"
proustonomics.com/quelques-sec...
@proustonomics.bsky.social

20.01.2026 22:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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18.01.2026 17:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AGM & Birthday Lecture
7 February 2026 @2pm
Members and friends are warmly invited
to our annual event held in London.
This year’s Birthday Lecture will be given 
by Professor Robert Hewison on
“Arrows of the Chase: Ruskin and the Press”.
The afternoon will also include the announcement 
of the Ruskin Book Prize 2025 winner.
Booking details via the link in our bio or on
https://bit.ly/3N70VA6
We very much look forward to welcoming you.

AGM & Birthday Lecture 7 February 2026 @2pm Members and friends are warmly invited to our annual event held in London. This year’s Birthday Lecture will be given by Professor Robert Hewison on “Arrows of the Chase: Ruskin and the Press”. The afternoon will also include the announcement of the Ruskin Book Prize 2025 winner. Booking details via the link in our bio or on https://bit.ly/3N70VA6 We very much look forward to welcoming you.

12.01.2026 13:41 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Shortlisted for the Ruskin Society Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced at the Society’s AGM on 7 Feb 2026. The Stones of Venice, edited by William C. McKeown. @utpress @uofmemphis

The Stones of Venice, edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by William C. McKeown (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is the first unabridged edition of any major work by Ruskin in recent years restoring Ruskin’s great study of Venetian architecture as moral and cultural history for today’s readers.
When John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice in the early 1850s, he offered far more than an architectural survey. Through a critique of Venetian building traditions, Ruskin set medieval craftsmanship against Renaissance formality and linked architectural style to broader moral and social values. His prose, both passionate and precise, shaped how generations of readers understood Venice and encouraged wider reflection on the ethical dimensions of modern design.
For more than a century the book has been available only in shortened editions, which focused on its descriptive brilliance but lost sight of much of Ruskin’s wider argument. This new unabridged edition restores the work in full, including sections long omitted, Ruskin’s supplementary materials, and a range of his original drawings reproduced directly rather than through later engravings. It also brings together Ruskin’s own catalogue of Venice’s key buildings, updated with contemporary notes, alongside an appendix of related writings and a substantial introduction that situates the book within the course of Ruskin’s life and intellectual development.

Shortlisted for the Ruskin Society Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced at the Society’s AGM on 7 Feb 2026. The Stones of Venice, edited by William C. McKeown. @utpress @uofmemphis The Stones of Venice, edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by William C. McKeown (University of Toronto Press, 2025) is the first unabridged edition of any major work by Ruskin in recent years restoring Ruskin’s great study of Venetian architecture as moral and cultural history for today’s readers. When John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice in the early 1850s, he offered far more than an architectural survey. Through a critique of Venetian building traditions, Ruskin set medieval craftsmanship against Renaissance formality and linked architectural style to broader moral and social values. His prose, both passionate and precise, shaped how generations of readers understood Venice and encouraged wider reflection on the ethical dimensions of modern design. For more than a century the book has been available only in shortened editions, which focused on its descriptive brilliance but lost sight of much of Ruskin’s wider argument. This new unabridged edition restores the work in full, including sections long omitted, Ruskin’s supplementary materials, and a range of his original drawings reproduced directly rather than through later engravings. It also brings together Ruskin’s own catalogue of Venice’s key buildings, updated with contemporary notes, alongside an appendix of related writings and a substantial introduction that situates the book within the course of Ruskin’s life and intellectual development.

Shortlisted for the Ruskin Society Book Prize 2025. The winner will be announced at the Society’s AGM on 7 Feb 2026. The Stones of Venice, edited by William C. McKeown. @utpress @uofmemphis.bsky.social

12.01.2026 14:15 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Via @amisdeproust.bsky.social

“Thanks to Eurélien : Le Département d'Eure-et-Loir for this page about the House of Aunt Léonie - Marcel Proust Museum in the latest issue of the departmental magazine!”

www.calameo.com/read/0008078...

11.01.2026 14:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please join SAMP in 2026!
www.amisdeproust.fr/fr/adhesions
@amisdeproust.bsky.social

04.01.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quelques secrets de Bernard de Fallois - Des documents inédits révèlent l'appartenance de Fallois à l'extrême droite et sa complicité intellectuelle avec le premier négationnisme.

Don't miss this remarkable article, by Nicolas Ragonneau! @proustonomics.bsky.social
"Quelques secrets de Bernard de Fallois" #proust #bernarddefallois @amisdeproust.bsky.social
Read and re-read:
proustonomics.com/quelques-sec...

30.12.2025 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quelques secrets de Bernard de Fallois - Des documents inédits révèlent l'appartenance de Fallois à l'extrême droite et sa complicité intellectuelle avec le premier négationnisme.

Don't miss this remarkable article, by Nicolas Ragonneau! @proustonomics.bsky.social
"Quelques secrets de Bernard de Fallois" #proust #bernarddefallois @amisdeproust.bsky.social
Read and re-read:
proustonomics.com/quelques-sec...

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Did you know Charlotte Mandell translated these two books?
"The Lemoine Affair" was critical in Proust's journey to fine his mature voice.
#proust #TheLemoineAffair @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social
From Willam C. Carter's biography, "Marcel Proust: A Life."
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

19.12.2025 17:14 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Sold Out! “Proust’s ‘Swann’s Way’ for Beginners”
Registration is Closed.
#proust @nypl.bsky.social

19.12.2025 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aimai, you posted: “Helena Normanton QC 1st woman to be admitted into Inn of Court & 2nd woman to be called to the Bar of England & Wales.”

Try Genji again; considered the first psychological novel, written 1000-1012, by a woman, Murasaki Shikibu.
www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/collections/...

15.12.2025 01:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Louis Harnett O"Meara will facilitate our friendly, free Beginners Proust: “Swann's Way;” in-person; 2nd Tuesday, Jan-June, 6-7:30pm.
Registration required:
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
Text: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Image by #kproustians
@amisdeproust.bsky.social @nypl.bsky.social

14.12.2025 14:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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"Proust and The Tale of Genji" a talk by J. Keith Vincent (BU).
Program: Welcome by Ina K.; Introduction by Louis Harnett O'Merara (the JML Facilitator for "Swann's Way" in 2026).

Greenwich Village, Dec. 9, at Jefferson Market Library @nypl.bsky.social #Genji #KeithVincent

Images by @kproustians

14.12.2025 06:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Greenwich Village, Jefferson Market Library, Dec. 9:
The place to have been, if you love both Proust "The Search" and Murasaki Shikibu "Tale of Genji."
J. Keith Vincent (BU) illuminated the astonishing similarities between these novels, 1000 years apart!
Images by @kproustians
@nypl.bsky.social

14.12.2025 05:47 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1
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Read "Swann's Way" #Proust with our friendly, free group, facilitated by Louis Harnett O"Meara.

Beginners: In-person; 2nd Tuesday, Jan-June,
6-7:30pm. Regististration required:
www.nypl.org/events/progr...
Text: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Image by @kproustians
@amisdeproust.bsky.social

09.12.2025 04:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Saint-Saëns and His World - Fisher Center at Bard

Absolutely, if in the country!

In 2012, I met William C. Carter for the first time at Bard.
“#Proust and Music”
Sosnoff Theater, Friday, August 17
7 p.m. Preconcert Panel: Larry Bensky, moderator; André Aciman; William C. Carter; Mary E. Davis
(P.39)
fishercenter.bard.edu/wp-content/u...

08.12.2025 14:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Au contraire, in your debt!
In requesting Laure Murat’s dedication for your book, you gave me the “letter of introduction” for me to see Laure’s genuine, radiant smile.
Let’s hope she visits New York!

08.12.2025 03:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0