The All England Summarize Proust Contest

This is a classic. You have to admire Maud's mother-in-law. Obviously a lady with a certain amount of leisure.

http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=8096

Everyone is blogging Madame Proust as well as her great son. See below:
http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2007/10/29/the_quintessential_writers_mot.html

And yet more literary musings. Did I list this yesterday?
http://penamerica.blogspot.com/2007/10/michael-ondaatje-davis-on-proust-urban.html

Sometimes it seems the entire world is Proust obsessed, except here in the Boston area where we in Red Sox Nation are World Series and the-end-of-a-perfect-baseball- season obsessed. The fete yesterday was one for the books. It's like a tsunami of energy is rolling onward.

My question: after Proust secluded himself in the cork-lined room, did he still want to go out into society? Maybe some of my readers know the answer. I have Painter's biography, but have not perused it lately.

Onward.

Odette