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Chez Proust.(Proust in Love)(Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris)(Proust's English)(Book review)
On the face of it, Proust was not obvious great-writer material. He was in some ways a dilettante, social butterfly, snobbery-deprecating snob (except when he sought out young lower-class men as sex objects), and an extraordinary hypochondriac and eccentric, wearing a fur coat and white gloves to the dinner table, and living amid cork-lined walls. He'd also take to his bed on the least excuse, and was extremely loath to get out of it.
That he was also a closet queen is easily understandable; in his day, Gay Paree was not all that gay-friendly. He was, however, very fond of women in a nonsexual way--perhaps an extension of his inordinate love for his mother--and ...
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