In the great work of Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time , Jews and homosexuals occupy a central place - even more essential as the author moves towards his "Found Time". There is even between these two "races" (this is the word, now politically incorrect, that Proust himself uses) a common "curse", which it is fascinating to understand and analyze. This task is the focus of Patrick Mimouni's major book. Thus, exploring the "cursed memoirs" of the inhabitants of Sodom and the children of Israel, he comes to "reread" the entire research from an entirely new angle. Better still, he recounts episodes absolutely familiar to classical Prussians - such as "the vertebrae of the forehead" of Aunt Leonie, "anti-Semitism" of Bloch, the "bridal and buzzing dances" of Baron Charlus, "the Croix de Guerre" that Saint-Loup forgotten in the brothel of rue de l'Arcade, etc ... - by placing them in a broader context: that of French society at the dawn of the 20 th century. The result is a madly romantic work despite its erudition. And which, undoubtedly, will be authoritative in the cenacles (more and more vast) Proustian.--Grasset.
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