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Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire

The November 2009issue of Vanity Fair magazine has an article by editor Graydon Carter, announcing the publication of the magazine’s back-page Proust Questionnaire in book form: Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire. The article contains amusing caricatures of some of the celebrities by the book’s illustrator Risko, along with their answers to certain questions.

Here is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s: The lowest depth of misery: “Did you read the reviews for Last Action Hero?” The article invites readers to answer their own Proust Questionnaire by going to http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/proust-questionnaire, where you’ll find VF’s Proust Facebook app, which “allows you to answer the questionnaire and share your answers with your friends.”

In 1969, French publisher Albin Michel brought out a similar but more modest book in which one hundred French writers answered the famous questionnaire: Cent écrivains français répondent au “Questionnaire Marcel Proust.” Among those included are Michel Butor, Eugène Ionesco, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Marcel Pagnol, and Georges Simenon.

Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/proust-questionnaire

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