Hearing or reading “Yarmouth”

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850).

Pretty Proustian.

Yarmouth : David :: Combray : Marcel.

Em’ly : David :: Gilberte : Marcel.

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[“It seems that Proust did not discover Dickens before, possibly, the age of 35, when his friend René Peter lent him a copy of David Copperfield ”: Christine Huguet, “Dickens in France: Major Writers,” in The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, ed. Michael Hollington (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Though Proust’s initial response was negative, his friend never got the book back. More here.]