“T anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignifi cant a creature as the comma bacillus,” wrote Marcel Proust, should not be astonishing to those in the know. Plagued by illness from childhood, the author was very much in tune with medicine, which he pondered often in Remembrance of Things Past (1913), his monumental novel on the nature of memory. He also knew about c...

In this survey, we present five different proofs for the transcendence of Kempner’s number, defined by the infinite series ∑∞ n=0 1 22 n . We take the opportunity to mention some interesting ideas and methods that are used for proving deeper results. We outline proofs for some of these results and also point out references where the reader can find all the details. À Jean-Paul Allouche, pour so...

Este artículo de literatura comparada investiga el período post-Vinteuil analizando la recepción del compositor ficticio À Recherche du temps perdu Marcel Proust en escritos segunda mitad siglo XX y XXI. Estas novelas sobre se inscriben una subcategoría ficción relativamente reciente (fines XVIII): las historias compositores que solo existen páginas los libros. La marcó comienzo un cambio forma...

Marcel Proust was the son and brother of eminent Parisian physicians. He was fascinated by medicine and psychology, which he pursued both for his own interest and as material for his writing. Undoubtedly Proust had a number of "organic" diseases, but many of them, such as asthma, were considered by the physicians of his day to be purely manifestations of emotional disturbances. Others, such as ...


 Marcel Proust’s novels certify kitsch by the presence of architecture, theater and fashion. The writer produced his works using textual accumulation hybridization. These two processes call for other arts in romantic production. From this point view, baroque, gothic modern architectures are represented texts through buildings tested rhetorical descriptions. Images opera scenes accentuate ...