PORTRAIT – Literature professor publishes The Other Side of Time, on a life of study and travel, from which the author of the Search is never completely absent.
Do you know Jean-Yves Tadié ? For those who answer in the negative, we’d advise you to find the edition ofÀ the search for lost time in the “Pléiade”, which he assured. And former students of the Sorbonne and Oxford will remember this tireless professor of literature. At the dawn of his 90th year, the indefatigable archaeologist of the cathedral of words has lost none of his flame.
Tadié borrows from Raymond Aron a tall, slim figure with an eagle nose and a never-ending forehead. He had a playful look in his eyes, and an outspoken way of talking, tinged with an old-fashioned courtesy that can be savored for the duration of a meeting.
Educated by the Jesuits for freedom of thought
He published his Mémoires in which, in his own words, ” the specialist in others becomes a specialist in himself “. One wonders how this academic, who has perfectly integrated Proust’s art and method of turning his life into novelistic material, has…
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