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Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust

Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust


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The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques Guerin, the head of a French perfume house, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Glimpsing the possibility of adding to his collection, Guerin stumbles into a tense and tangled relationship with the novelist's family who, embarrassed by Proust's writings and his homosexuality, are in the process of destroying the mountain of notebooks, letters and manuscripts they had inherited. Little by little, over decades, Guerin acquires Marcel's remaining personal effects, including - eventually - the relic he had come to covet more than any other: the moth-eaten otter-lined overcoat Proust had worn every day and used as a blanket every night while writing in bed. Like the novelist's second skin, this coat was as close as Guerin could ever come to touching Proust himself: it was the jewel of his collection.

About the Author :
Lorenza Foschini is an Italian journalist, writer and television news anchorwoman, and a former Vatican correspondent. She is the author of Investigation at Millennium's End, which won the Prix Scanno. Born in Naples, she lives in Rome.

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"[Foschini], elegantly teasing out the relationship between family dynamics and property... highlights the role of objects and spaces in Proust's work, allowing us to see In Search of Lost Time through a different lens."--BookForum "A fascinating, quick read about Jacques Gu?rin, a guy whose obsession with Marcel Proust makes Justin Bieber fans look calm (slight exaggeration)."--Nylon Magazine "A rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection, that is heartbreaking as well as thrilling, about the 'afterlife' of a writer's manuscripts and the things he carried."--Michael Ondaatje "Charmingly narrated."--San Francisco Chronicle "Foschini does a superb job of driving the intrigue and depicting how and why Gu?rin fell into such an infatuation. The Prousts and Gu?rin are characters not soon forgotten."--Sacramento Book Review "I read it in two sittings and just loved it."--Andr? Aciman, author of EIGHT WHITE NIGHTS "It's exquisite, delicate, fascinating. I put PROUST'S OVERCOAT on the same shelf as Serena Vitale's PUSHKIN'S BUTTON and Umberto Eco's FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM."--Edmund White, author of HOTEL DE DREAM and MY LIVES "Lorenza Foschini's delightful portrait of Guerin and his Proust obsession (translated from the Italian by Eric Karpeles). The objects themselves take on a life of their own and do a jig in this little volume."--Newsday "Lorenza Foschini's portrait of Gu?rin and his Proust obsession is delightful, and the objects themselves take on a life of their own and do a jig in this little volume."--Los Angeles Times "Readers pondering what manner of person created the masterpiece In Search of Lost Time will gobble up this tale of family tensions, revenge and collecting as they reflect on a literary legacy that was almost lost."--Shelf Awareness "The translation by Karpeles... is seamless. VERDICT: This reviewer belonged to a group that read only Proust; we called ourselves the Proustitutes. Proust's Overcoat is urgently recommended to Proustitutes wherever you are."--Library Journal "This book is just my style. In the spirit of La Boh?me, a brilliant aria to the coat."--Patti Smith "This sparkling, elegant piece of reportage addresses not only these particular facts and their historical ambience but also, more indirectly, larger questions of our fascination with celebrity and our passion for relics, however humble, gilded by the charisma of fame."--Boston Globe


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781846272721
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Granta Books
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 144
  • Sub Title: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1846272726
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 111 gr


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