Proust, metodą Ollendorffa

• Authors: Jan Zieliński

Title variants

EN

Proust, in the Manner of Ollendorff

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The first part of the paper discusses the meandric cooperation between Marcel Proust and the Paris based publisher Paul Ollendorff that lasted over 20 years (1893-1913). Further on, the Western expansion of the Ollendorff family from Rawicz, Poland, is briefly sketched. Another passage con- cerns a Maeterlinck pastiche by Proust (Echo, 1911), seen in the context of Ollendorff’s conversation method of learning languages. The author suggests Proust was using this method to learn English himself. The paper ends with a survey of several mentions of Ollendorff’s method in the twentieth century Polish prose.

Keywords

EN

Proust; the Ollendorffs; self-study guides; phrase books; conversational method; pastiche; comparative literature

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 327-349

Contributors

author

Jan Zieliński

• Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych UKSW