(11.13) Well you just can’t have too much Proust. Two salons this week at the Providence Athenaeum will help illuminate that thing that happened . . . and that other thing . . . nobody here has read Proust. Thursday, November 12 — Part 1: Medicine is Not an Exact Science: Evidence, Grief, and Style …
(11.14) Sorry, late on this. The Dean Hotel, in collaboration with the Providence Athenaeum, presents PROUSTFEST 2014! Professor Mary Bergstein on her new book: In Looking Back One Learns to See: Marcel Proust and Photography. Bergstein has published widely on topics from Italian Renaissance sculpture to contemporary photography. Marcel Proust offered the twentieth century a …
(11.16) Friday’s Salon at the Athenaeum — “Proust’s Duchesse: The Making and Unmaking of a Society Style Icon” — continues the ‘Proust and fashion’ conversation started Tuesday (see below), this time with Columbia University Associate Professor of French Caroline Weber. Weber examines Proust’s friendship with the three leading salon hostesses and taste-makers upon whom he …
Swanning about in the stacks. From the Providence Athenaeum Director of Programs, Christina Bevilacqua, ” Join us for two conversations that reconsider conventional assumptions about both Proust and fashion – in part by showing how Proust “read” and used fashion to write about everything from the frivolous to the profound.” Tuesday’s Salon: Proustfest part 1: …
Proustfest at the Athenaeum comprises two separate salons to be held this Tuesday and this Friday in the evening. (I’m anxious to meet these experts as I have this idea for a scratch-and-sniff Proust comic in which our hero eats a radioactive madeleine, develops super memory powers, and remembers everything that ever happened to him …