Proust and Baudelaire: Living One's Own Time

My research work is rooted in amazement. While novels, music, painting and theatre each have a figurehead, a herald representing their art, this disparate whole nevertheless forms a unified whole. But there is no poet. Of the poets to which Proust alludes, Baudelaire seems to be by far the most important. Baudelaire not only frequently resurfaces in Proust’s writing, he is also often found implicitly. My aim was thus first a philological one. Setting myself the objective of researching on wh...