Open AccessProust And The Ollendorff’s Method
Author(s) -
J Zieliński
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
załącznik kulturoznawczy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-4233
pISSN - 2392-2338
DOI - 10.21697/zk.2019ee.01.16
Subject(s) - conversation , context (archaeology) , reflexive pronoun , linguistics , echo (communications protocol) , history , foreign language , literature , art history , art , sociology , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , computer network
The first part of the paper discusses the meanders of collaboration between Marcel Proust and Paris-based publisher Paul Ollendorff that spanned over twenty years (1893-1913). Further on, 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-based method of learning foreign languages. The author suggests Proust was using this method to learn English himself. The paper ends with a survey of several references to the Ollendorff method in the twentieth century Polish prose.