This series of entwined biographical sketches recounts how; in the Romantic Era; love affairs; often illicit; were transformed into novels; memoirs; and published correspondences. We make the intimate acquaintance of great writers like Mme de Staeuml;l; Chateaubriand; George Sand; and Anatole France; who; however; fall gradually under the suspicion of pursuing their amorous entanglements for ldquo;good material.rdquo; The tale ends with a moving account; based on unpublished sources; of the strange; intense friendship of Marcel Proust and Jeanne Pouquet; the girl who became the model for Gilberte in Swannrsquo;s Way. Disenchanted yet compassionate; this book explores how our affections may be exalted (and at times betrayed) by our desire to refashion them as stories.
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