The Delhi Proustians – 10 July, Hazrat Marcel Proustuddin’s Happy Birthday
Celebrating Marcel Proust. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] 10 July is a special date. It is the Happy Birthday of Marcel Proust, author of the seven-volume French novel À la Recherché du Temps Perdu, known to the English-speaking…
Letter from Paris – The Reluctant Proustian, Marais
Proust’s reader in Proust’s city. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] He is a man of another time. On streets, he is shocked to see women with cigarettes. At home, he paints, and plays piano and cello. In drawing…
Letter from Paris – Hazrat Marcel Proustuddin’s Dargah, Père Lachaise Cemetery
The secret origins of Marcel Proust. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] O Sheikh Marcel, bless us so that we all can write like you. The Delhi Walla is in the dargah of Hazrat Marcel Proustuddin in Père Lachaise…
Letter from Venice – Marcel Proust’s Woman, Calle dei Preti
A Proustian in Italy. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] She has read the entire Proust, all the seven volumes of À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. We the English-speakers, of course, know the French novel as In Search…
Letter from Venice – Proust in French, Castello
In search of Marcel. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is performing a Proustian pilgrimage in Venice, a place that was special to French novelist Marcel Proust. One day I visited Libreria “Acqua Alta” in Castello….
Letter from Venice – Proust on Selfies, Piazza San Marco
In search of Marcel. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] This is for Marcel Proust In April 2013, The Delhi Walla finished all the seven volumes of Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time. Immediately afterwards I picked them…
The Delhi Proustians – C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Proust’s High Commissioner
A biography by Jean Findlay. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] There happens to be a very, very long novel. It has seven volumes, 200 characters and 1.2 million words. A Scotsman, who was an extremely sensitive homosexual and…
The Delhi Proustians – The Best English Translation, Scott Moncrieff or Lydia Davis
Letters from Nagpur and Birmingham. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is soon to restart the weekly meetings of The Delhi Proustians. The other day I received a mail from Ankit Kumar, a reader in Nagpur, Maharashtra. I’m sharing…
City Notice – The Delhi Proustians, 38th Meeting
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The 38th meeting of The Delhi Proustians was to take place on March 9 2015. The Delhi Walla has moved it to next week. Sorry, but there’s…
City Notice – The Delhi Proustians is Back
A la recherche du temps perdu. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] The Delhi Walla is happy to announce the 38th meeting of The Delhi Proustians, a wildly-popular club created in 2011 that gossips about French novelist Marcel Proust…
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