Proust for Beginners
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"Proust for Beginners": Caroline Weber, professor of French at Barnard and author of Proust's Duchess,
in conversation with Pamela Druckerman and Simon Kuper (In English)
Friday, June 25, 2021
11:00am CST / 6:00pm Paris
Federation of Alliances Françaises USA
Have you read any books by the famed French novelist Marcel Proust? Do you just pretend to have read Proust? Are you afraid to even crack open In Search of Lost Time? No need to panic. Renowned Proust expert Caroline Weber introduces us to the man, his milieu, his era and his writing.
Caroline Weber is professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University; she has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. She’s the author of Proust’s Duchess, Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution and has written for The New York Times, London Review of Books and many other publications. She’s currently a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the NYPL Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers. She lives in New York.
Pamela Druckerman is the author of five books including Paris By Phone, a rhyming picture book for kids.
This program, produced by Pandemonium U, is free to the public and is part of a series sponsored by the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA. The Zoom link will be sent one hour prior to the event.