The Proust Questionnaire

About this book

Marcel Prousts questionnaire is one of the best-known interview devices used in the media nowadays. Fun intelligent and concise it reveals much of the personality of those questioned. Assouline Publishing presents a handsome and entertaining facsimile edition of the original questionnaire with Marcel Prousts handwritten replies. An introduction by Henry-Jean Servat a long-standing member of the Friends of Marcel Proust Society provides a historical account of the questionnaire and a foreword by William C. Carter imparts the significance of Proust today. In addtion the book features questionnaires filled out by a variety of cultural figures such as Brigitte Bardot Marisa Berenson and Richard Meier. A set of blank questionnaires are included at the end of the book making The Proust Questionnaire an ideal giftwith many returns.