My glasses cleaning cloth has an image of Marcel on it. Bought in the Librairie Lamartine in Bergues, if you fancy one too. After writing my PhD thesis on Proust (and Flaubert), I haven’t re-read ALRTP since then, but decided I needed to. Downloaded it onto Kindle and could not get on with it at all. There must be something about the Kindle format that works for eg Angela Thirkell, but does violence to Proust. So I’m going to haul out my original paperbacks. My Pléiade edition is in storage as part of our house renovation - I’d prefer to read it, but needs must.

The only way I can link Proust and the Beatles is to repeat my comment on your last post. The language of Proust plus the Beatles, in the shape of French radio podcasts about the Beatles. radiofrance.fr/radiofra…