“ What’s in a name ? » asked Shakespeare in his time. Many things, and sometimes even a whole world. French historian and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Laure Murat takes head on with Proust, family novel the aristocratic world of her childhood, the one with which she broke some thirty years ago and which for a long time had only a very small degree of separation from the society that Marcel Proust describes in his chef -work, In Search of Lost Time. A world of titled people, servants and governesses, of privileges, hierarchy and abundance, “the kingdom of the pure signifier and of performance without an object”, she wrote, where a climate of permanent confusion between literature seemed to reign. And life. A fascinating, dense and flexible autobiographical story in which, exploring a certain “identity disorder”, “Laure, Marie, Caroline, Princess Murat” takes us into Proust’s work through the back door.
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