Proust Questionnaire

Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one's personality, first popularized by the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.

At the end of the nineteenth century, when Proust was still in his teens,he discovered a questionnaire in an English-language album belonging to his friend Antoinette, daughter of future President Felix Faure, entitled "An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, etc." At that time, it was a fad among wealthy English families to answer such a list of questions that revealed the tastes and aspirations of the taker.

Proust answered the questionnaire several times in his life, always with enthusiasm. The original manuscript of his answers of 1890, at the time of his volunteer internship or some little time afterwards, titled "by Marcel Proust himself," was found in 1924. It was auctioned on May 27, 2003 for the sum of 102,000 euros.

The television host Bernard Pivot, seeing an opportunity for a writer to reveal at the same time aspects of his work and his personality, traditionally submitted his guests to the Proust questionnaire at the end of the French broadcast 'Apostrophes'.

Inspired by Bernard Pivot, James Lipton, the host of the TV program Inside the Actor's Studio, gives an adapted version of the Proust Questionnaire to some of his guests. Lipton has often incorrectly characterized the questionnaire itself as an invention of Marcel Proust.

A similar questionnaire is regularly seen in a section of the magazine Vanity Fair, answered by various celebrities.

The questionnaire

The version of the questionnaire answered by Proust differed somewhat from the English original; he translated it into French, changed or ignored some of the questions, and added others.

Notes

Related links

* [http://www.library.uiuc.edu/kolbp/qst.htm Responses to the questionnaire by Antoinette Faure]
* [http://hoelder1in.org/Proust/fill_questionnaire.html Answer the Proust Questionnaire]


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