Sharif Gemie reviews Proust, Roman Familial by Laure Murat for BookBlast.
Since 1913, almost seven million people have started to read Proust’s epic: the number of those who have completed it is probably smaller. A la recherche du temps perdu has acquired a status of its own: a Proustige, as they say. Of all those readers, few have had as visceral and as personal a reaction as Laure Murat. ‘Proust saved me,’ are the last words of her unusual memoir, Proust: roman familial (Proust, A Family Affair, currently only available in French).
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