Proustiennes

Proustiennes follows Erik Satie's Gnossiennes—brief, deft explorations of a theme. Jean Frémon traces Marcel Proust's influence through hawthorns, soirées, and clairvoyance to attitudes on closure, bringing the fin-de-siècle world of Paris's belle époque into conversation with today.

From "Other and Same":

"Was it because, having already seen white hawthorn, the sight of a pink hawthorn with blossoms that were multiple rather than singular gave him the simultaneous sense of analogy and differ...