Proust at the Majestic : the last days of the author whose book changed Paris

by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines

Paper Book, 2006

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Available

Publication

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.

Description

The most extraordinary dinner party of all time - the night Proust, Joyce, Picasso and Stravinsky all met.

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Thin. Gossipy. Revelling in a thousand names. Trivia about famous artists or titled rich folk. Only point of interest was comparison of Proust & Joyce: they were rude to each other ( which i already knew) and Proust sold well while Joyce did not. My distaste exacerbated by the audio reader (on
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Clipper) who put on funny voices for those funny foreigners (so Proust sounded like a character from ‘allo ‘allo) but couldn’t pronounce French ( so Prince sounded like Prance, rue like roue, and avant-garde had a hard T). Quel horreur!
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