Proust (pink) Questionnaire, The

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Marcel Proust's questionnaire is one of the best-known interviews devices used in the media nowadyas. Fun, intelligent, and concise, its reveals much of the personality of those questioned.<< While the Maison Gerard Darel has recently purchased the original Marcel Proust questionairre, Assouline Publishing puts forth a facsimile version that contains Marcel Proust's handwritten replies. An introduction by Henry-Jean Servat, a ling-standing member of the Friends of Marcel Proust Society, provides a historical account of the questionnaire.<< In addition the book includes questionnaires filled by important persons with various cultural backgrounds: people such as Diane von Furstenberg, Marisa Berenson, Daniel Boulud, Roseanna Arquette, Tony Parker, and Richard Meier. Some blank questionnaires ae also included at the end, making this book an ideal gifr.<<AUTHOR: French professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, William C. Carter is respected worldwide as a Proust authority. He produced the award-winning film, Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life and Authored The Proustian Quest. His latest work Marcel Proust: A Life was selected by The New York Times as one of their \"Notable Books\" and was named both \"Biography of the Year\" and \"Non-fiction Book of the Year\" by Foreword Magazine.<< Henry-Jean Servat has written more than a dozen works on the cinema, and has covered the Cannes Festival for such newspapers as Le Film Francais and Paris-Match. He is the author of In the Spirit of St. Tropez and In the Spirit of Cannes for Assouline. <<

ISBN: 9782843237058
Author: SERVAT HENRY-JEAN
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 14/03/2005
RRP: $75.00
Pages: 96
Dimension: 216mm X 241mm