Open AccessProust, metodą Ollendorffa
Author(s) -
J Zieliński
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
załącznik kulturoznawczy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-4233
pISSN - 2392-2338
DOI - 10.21697/zk.2014.1.14
Subject(s) - conversation , context (archaeology) , reflexive pronoun , linguistics , echo (communications protocol) , literature , history , sociology , art , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , computer network
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 concerns 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.