A tribute to the housekeeper Françoise’s “millionaire cousins,” the Larivières, who come out of retirement to work in a café run by the widow of their nephew, who has been killed in the Great War.
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again, trans. Ian Patterson (London: Penguin, 2003).
An odd moment, in which the relatives of a fictional character, in a book “in which everything has been made up,” are avowed as real. Even odder when we realize that it seems to be not “Marcel,” the autobiographical narrator, who speaks here but his creator, M. Proust.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021
"Millionaire cousins“
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