How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel
Who is Henri van Blarenberghe from How Proust Can Change Your Life ; Not a Novel and what is their importance?
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Van Blarenberghe was a young man, an acquaintance of Proust, who brutally butchered his mother to death. Proust was unhappy with the brief treatment of the crime the newspaper offered and thus delivered a multiple-page essay on the tragedy and the possible motivations behind the act.